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4573
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5833
National Ranking
1972

Overview

Behrooz Mirafzal is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States, specializing in the field of Engineering with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. Their research spans several subfields including Automotive Engineering and Hardware and Architecture.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications centered around key topics such as Microgrid Control and Optimization, Islanding Detection in Power Systems, and Smart Grid Energy Management. Other areas Mirafzal has contributed to include Multilevel Inverters and Converters, Advanced DC-DC Converters, Smart Grid Security and Resilience, and HVDC Systems and Fault Protection.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Fahmid Sadeque, Mehmetcan Gursoy, Fariba Fateh, Dushyant Sharma, and Tareq Hossen.

Common venues for Mirafzal's publications feature IEEE Access, the 2021 IEEE 22nd Workshop on Control and Modelling of Power Electronics (COMPEL), IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, the 2020 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Mirafzal include:

  • Toward more electric powertrains in aircraft: Technical challenges and advancements (2021) published in CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems
  • On Grid-Interactive Smart Inverters: Features and Advancements (2020) published in IEEE Access
  • Toward Less Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet in Electric Machines: A Review (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
  • Synchronization of Inverters in Grid Forming Mode (2022) published in IEEE Access
  • Direct Phase-Angle Detection for Three-Phase Inverters in Asymmetrical Power Grids (2020) published in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

Best Publications

  • Survey of Fault-Tolerance Techniques for Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverters

    Behrooz Mirafzal

  • Universal Induction Motor Model with Low-to-High Frequency Response Characteristics

    Behrooz Mirafzal;G. Skibinski;Ranga Tallam;D. Schlegel

  • On Stability of Voltage Source Inverters in Weak Grids

    Aswad Adib;Behrooz Mirafzal;Xiongfei Wang;Frede Blaabjerg

  • A Method of Seamless Transitions Between Grid-Tied and Stand-Alone Modes of Operation for Utility-Interactive Three-Phase Inverters

    David S. Ochs;Behrooz Mirafzal;Pedram Sotoodeh

  • Fault Diagnosis Techniques for Permanent Magnet AC Machine and Drives—A Review of Current State of the Art

    Seungdeog Choi;Moinul Shahidul Haque;Tawhid Bin Tarek;Vamsi Mulpuri

  • Open-Circuit IGBT Fault Detection and Location Isolation for Cascaded Multilevel Converters

    Jacob Lamb;Behrooz Mirafzal

  • Toward more electric powertrains in aircraft: Technical challenges and advancements

    Joseph Benzaquen;JiangBiao He;Behrooz Mirafzal

  • An SVPWM-Based Switching Pattern for Stand-Alone and Grid-Connected Three-Phase Single-Stage Boost Inverters

    B Mirafzal;M Saghaleini;A K Kaviani

  • Determination of Parameters in the Universal Induction Motor Model

    B. Mirafzal;G.L. Skibinski;R.M. Tallam

  • On innovative methods of induction motor inter-turn and broken-bar fault diagnostics

    B. Mirafzal;N.A.O. Demerdash

  • On innovative methods of induction motor interturn and broken-bar fault diagnostics

    B. Mirafzal;N.A.O. Demerdash

  • On Grid-Interactive Smart Inverters: Features and Advancements

    Behrooz Mirafzal;Aswad Adib

  • Induction machine broken-bar fault diagnosis using the rotor magnetic field space vector orientation

    B. Mirafzal;N.A.O. Demerdash

  • Toward Less Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet in Electric Machines: A Review

    Bikrant Poudel;Ebrahim Amiri;Parviz Rastgoufard;Behrooz Mirafzal

  • Effects of load magnitude on diagnosing broken bar faults in induction motors using the pendulous oscillation of the rotor magnetic field orientation

    B. Mirafzal;N.A.O. Demerdash

  • Soft started induction motor modeling and heating issues for different starting profiles using a flux linkage ABC-frame of reference

    M.G. Solveson;B. Mirafzal;N.A.O. Demerdash

  • Fault-Tolerant Technique for Δ-Connected AC-Motor Drives

    A Sayed-Ahmed;B Mirafzal;N A O Demerdash

  • Interturn Fault Diagnosis in Induction Motors Using the Pendulous Oscillation Phenomenon

    B. Mirafzal;R.J. Povinelli;N.A.O. Demerdash

  • E-Mobility — Advancements and Challenges

    Aswad Adib;Mohammad B. Shadmand;Pourya Shamsi;Khurram K. Afridi

  • Virtual Inductance for Stable Operation of Grid-Interactive Voltage Source Inverters

    Aswad Adib;Behrooz Mirafzal

  • Pulse-load effects on ship power system stability

    Vahid Salehi;Behrooz Mirafzal;Osama Mohammed

Frequent Co-Authors

Nabeel A. O. Demerdash
Nabeel A. O. Demerdash Marquette University
Osama A. Mohammed
Osama A. Mohammed Florida International University
Dan M. Ionel
Dan M. Ionel University of Kentucky
Frede Blaabjerg
Frede Blaabjerg Aalborg University
Giovanni Serra
Giovanni Serra University of Bologna
Patrick Wheeler
Patrick Wheeler University of Nottingham
Mehdi Ferdowsi
Mehdi Ferdowsi Missouri University of Science and Technology
Hamid A. Toliyat
Hamid A. Toliyat Texas A&M University
Maryam Saeedifard
Maryam Saeedifard Georgia Institute of Technology
Xiongfei Wang
Xiongfei Wang Royal Institute of Technology

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