Numerical methods for the computation of harmonic propagation and distortion differ in the manner in which they represent the harmonic sources and the system impedance. Iterative methods (e.g. harmonic load flow) use a phasor representation of these parameters. Time domain methods, on the other hand, use a time representation of the system elements and the harmonic sources. Thus, they are gener...

In this paper, the relation between synchronization and control of chaotic nodes connected through a time–varying network is discussed. In particular, the effects of pinning control on a set of moving chaotic agents are investigated showing that the role of system parameters, like agent density, is critical in order to reach the synchronous behavior and also to control the whole network by pinn...

Thyristor controlled static compensators consist of two basic schemes, TCR and TSC. Owing to the discontinuous current in TCR, current harmonics are generated in the supply system. This paper introduces two methods for the reduction of these harmonics. On the basis of the coordination or uncoordination of turn ratios with harmonic reduction levels, each method is described in two alternative sc...

Face recognition under varying pose is a challenging problem, especially when illumination variations are also present. Under Lambertian model, spherical harmonics representation has proved to be effective in modelling illumination variations for a given pose. In this paper, we extend the spherical harmonics representation to encode pose information. More specifically, we show that 2D harmonic ...

In a one-dimensional periodic nonlinear χ (2) medium, by choosing a proper material and geometrical parameters of the structure, it is possible to obtain two matching conditions for simultaneous generation of second and third harmonics. This leads to new diversity of the processes of the resonant three-wave interactions, which are discussed within the framework of slowly varying envelope approa...

This study introduces a method for estimating the model parameters of plucked string instruments using artiicial neural networks (ANN's). The system consists of a preprocessor and an ANN model. The prepro-cessor computes the time-varying harmonics of recorded sounds and this data is fed into the ANN model to implement the nonlinear mapping to the parameter space. The main advantage of this meth...

The random coding capacity of a vector Gaussian arbitrarily varying channel (VGAVC) is determined, along with a simple general method for computing this capacity. The VGAVC is a discrete-time memoryless vector channel with an input power constraint and additive Gaussian noise that is further corrupted by an additive “jamming signal.” The statistics of this jamming signal are unknown and may be ...

We report an experimental analysis of the capabilities of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy for mapping sub-surface features at varying depths. For the first time, we demonstrate experimentally that both the spatial resolution and depth contrast can be improved in subsurface microscopy by demodulating the measured near-field signal at higher harmonics of the probe's tapping...