Cooking is an integral part of each and every human being as food is one of the basic necessities for living. Commonly used sources of energy for cooking are firewood, crop residue, cow dung, kerosene, electricity, liquefied ...

Power converters have evolved from the classical low switching frequency thyristorised converters to the modern high-frequency switched mode converters employing fast power devices such as Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors ...

Peer to peer networks are becoming increasingly popular among Internet users as the downloading peers share the storage and upload bandwidth load of the system. This makes it possible for a large number of users to share ...

Modelling and simulation are essential ingredients of the analysis and design process in power electronics. It helps a design engineer gain an increased understanding of circuit operation. Accordingly, for a set of ...

With growing energy demands of the society and depleting reserves of conventional energy sources, renewable energy is the need of the hour. Out of the various renewable energy sources available, solar photovoltaic (PV) ...

Accurate testing of a device under development, in near to real-life environment, is essential to the rapid growth of emerging technologies such as distributed generation, renewable energy sources, electrical storage, ...

The thesis focuses on the areas for improvement in non-permanent magnet-based electric drives, such as the asymmetrical six-phase (or split-phase) induction motor and the switched reluctance motor drives. In the first ...

Tropical geometry is an area of mathematics that interfaces algebraic geometry and combinatorics. The main object of study in tropical geometry is the tropical variety, which is the combinatorial counterpart of a classical ...

In recent decades, scientific data has become available in increasing sizes and precision. Therefore techniques to analyze and summarize the ever increasing datasets are of vital importance. A common form of scientific ...