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Biography

Prof. Ahmad Harb

School of Natural Resources Engineering and Management, German Jordanian University, Jordan
Email: Ahmad.harb@gju.edu.jo

Qualifications

1996     Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic and State University, USA, Electrical Engineering
1990     M.Sc., Yarmouk University, Jordan, Electrical Engineering
1987     B.Sc., Yarmouk University, Jordan, Electrical Engineering

Publications (Selected)

  1. Haitham Swiety, Olivier Stalter, and Ahmad Harb, “AC/DC power decoupling in single-phase inverters”, Renewable Energy Congress, Hammamet, Tunisia, March, 2014
  2. Ahmad Harb and Souhib Harb, “Chaos and Bifurcation of DC-DC Buck Convertor”, Renewable Energy Congress, Sousse, Tunisia, Dec. 2012
  3. Ahmad Harb and Bassam Harb, ”Chaos Synchronization in Josephson Junctions”, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, Vol. 25, No. 6, August 2012.
  4. Ahmad Harb Nabil Ayoub, “Nonlinear Control of Chaotic Rikitake Two-Disk Dynamo”, International Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2012.
  5. Qais H. Alsafasfeh, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, and Ahmad M. Harb, “Fault Classification and Localizationin Power Systems Using Fault Signatures and Principal Components Analysis”, Energy and Power Engineering, Scientific Research, 2012.
  6. Mohammad Widyan and Ahmad Harb, “Modeling, Simulation and Performance Characteristics of DC Series Motors Powered by Photovoltaic and DC Shunt Generators”, IREC2011, Hammamet – Tunisia, Dec. 20-22, 2011.
  7. Ghassan M. Tashtoush, Ahmad M. Harb, Natheer Al-Atawneh,"Assessing Energy-Saving in JUST Facilities: A case study", International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2011.
  8. Ahmad M. Harb, Souhib M. Harb and Issa E. Batarseh,” Chaos and Biburcation of Voltage-Mode-Controlled Buck DC-DC Convertor with Multi Control Parameters”, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2010.
  9. Mohammad Widyan and Ahmad Harb, “On The Effect of TCSC and TCSC-Controller Gain on Bifurcation of Subsynchronous resonance in Power Systems”, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2010
  10. Mohammad Widyan and Ahmad Harb, “On The Effect of Turbine Governor Gain on Bifurcation of Subsynchronous resonance in Power Systems”,  International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2010.
  11. A. M. Harb and I. A. Smadi, “Parallel Distributed Compensation Fuzzy Controller For Nonlinear Control of A Series DC Motor”, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2010.
  12. Ahmad M. Harb and Issam A. Smadi, “ Tracking control of DC motors via mimo nonlinear fuzzy control”, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Vol. 42, Issue 2, October 2009.
  13. Ahmad Harb and Magdi Omari, “Bifurcation and Chaos Theory as Applied to SSR of the IEEE Second Benchmark Model (System # 2) with the Presence of the Damper Windings”, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2009.
  14. Issa Batarseh and Ahmad Harb,”E-Book on  Electrical Circuits”, John Wiley, under preparation, Dec. 2008
  15. Ahmad M. Harb and Bassam A. Harb, “Chaos Control for Circuit and Systems”, Controlling Chaotic Circuit and Systems, 2008.
  16. Q. M. Qananwah;  S. R. Malkawi; Ahmad Harb,”Chaos Synchronization of a third-order Phase Locked Loop”, International Journal of Electronics, 1362-3060, Volume 95, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 799 – 803
  17. Ahmad M. Harb, Ashraf A. Zaher, Ahmad A. Al-Qaisia and Mohammad A. Zohdy,” Recursive Backstepping Control of Chaotic Duffing Oscillators”, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 34, Issue 2, October 2007.
  18. Ahmad M. Harb and Bassam A. Harb, ”Controlling Chaos in Josephson-Junction Using Nonlinear Backstepping Controller”, IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 16, No. 4, pages 1988-1998, Dec. 2006.
  19. A.M. Harb and I.A. Smadi, “An Approach to Fuzzy Control for a class of Nonlinear Systems: Stability and Design Issues”, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 25, No.2, 2005.
  20. Ahmad M. Harb  and  Issam Al-Smadi, “ON FUZZY CONTROL OF CHAOTIC  SYSTEMS”, Intelligent Control on Chaotic Nonlinear Systems, 2005.