Inverters and AC Drives: Control, Modeling, and Simulation Using Simulink

About Narayanaswamy P.R. Iyer

Narayanaswamy P.R. Iyer CPEngg. Ph.D. is the Founder of Myna Electrical and Electronics Consultancy in Australia and has more than two decades of experience in the modeling of electrical and electronic circuits power electronic converters and electric drives using various software packages including MATLAB/Simulink PSIM PSCAD PSPICE and MICROCAP. He received his Master of Engineering by research and Ph.D. in Power Electronics and Drives from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) NSW and Curtin University of Technology (CURTIN) Perth WA Australia respectively. He received his B.Sc.(Engg.)(Electrical) and M.Sc.(Engg.)(Power Systems) degrees from the University of Kerala and the University of Madras respectively. Dr. Iyer has worked as a part-time faculty member with the Department of Electrical Engineering at UNSW Sydney and UTS as well as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at several engineering colleges and universities in India. He was a research fellow with the Faculty of Engineering Power Electronics Machines and Control group at the University of Nottingham UK from July 2012 to March 2014. He has published several papers in this area with leading conferences and journals. He has to his credit several discoveries such as Three Phase Clipped Sinusoid PWM Inverter Single Programmable and Dual Programmable Rectifier Using Three Phase Matrix Converter Topology A Novel AC to AC Converter Using a DC Link and a submitted patent on A Single Phase AC to PWM Single Phase AC and DC Converter with alternative title Swamy Converter. He is the author of the booksPower Electronic Converters Interactive Modelling Using Simulink (CRC Press 2018) andAC to AC Converters Modelling Simulation and Real-Time Implementation Using Simulink(CRC Press 2019). He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEngg.) of Australia.