Prof. Ahmad Harb
Prof. Ahmad Harb
Educational Background
Electrical Engineering/Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Electrical Engineering/ Jordan University of Science & Technology
Electrical Engineering/Yarmouk University
Electrical Engineering/ Jordan University of Science & Technology
Electrical Engineering/Yarmouk University
Research Interests
Modern nonlinear theory (chaos and bifurcation) of Power Systems. control and stability, Renewable energy systems, smart grid, Power electronics, and electric machine.
Selected Publications
| 2021 | Fatima Abu Salah, Ahmad Harb, Mohamad K. Khawaja,"Integrated energy storage systems with the Jordanian electrical power grid",Computers & Electrical Engineering,Volume 96, Part A, December 2021, 107470,2021 |
| 2018 | Zeid Al Qaisi, Qais Alsafasfeh, Ahmad Harb,"Stability impact of integrated small scale hybrid (PV/Wind) system with electric distribution network",AIMS Energy,6(5): 832–845,2018 |
| 2018 | Ahmad Abu Dyak, Qais Alsafasfeh, Ahmad Harb,"Stability analysis of connected large-scale renewable energy sources into Jordanian national power grid",International Journal of Ambient Energy,2018 |
| 2017 | Esra Al Ghsoon, Ahmad Harb, Mohammad Hamdan,"On stability and power quality impacts of vehicle to grid (V2G)",Applied Solar Energy,53 (2), 100-108,2017 |
| 2016 | M Ammous, S Charfi, A Harb, M Chaabene,"Improvement of PV/T Based Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant Performances Using Fuzzy Logic Controller",International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Application,5 (01), 11,2016 |
| 2015 | Shadi Harb, Issa Batarseh, Ahmad Harb,"Development, Implementation, Assessment of a Web-based Circuit Solver for Teaching Basic Electrical Circuits Theory",International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) Journal,2015 |
| 2015 | Samir Al Sharif, Ahmad Harb,"Control of Instable Chaotic Small Power System",Journal of Power and Energy Engineering,3, 1-7,2015 |
| 2014 | Ahmad Harb, Nabil Ayoub,"On Slide Mode Control of Chaotic Rikitake Two-Disk Dynamo",International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Applications,3, 136-143,2014 |
| 2014 | Samir Al Sharif, Ahmad Harb, Haibing Hu, Issa Batarseh,"An Experimental Simulation of a Design Three-Port DC-DC Converter",Circuits and Systems Journal,5, 238-251,2014 |
| 2012 | Ahmad Harb,, Souhib Harb,,"Chaos and Bifurcation of DC-DC Buck Convertor",Renewable Energy Congress,,Sousse, Tunisia,2012 |
| 2012 | Ahmad Harb, Bassam Harb,,""Chaos Synchronization in Josephson Junctions"",Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism,,Vol. 25, No. 6,,2012 |
| 2012 | Ahmad Harb, Nabil Ayoub,,""Nonlinear Control of Chaotic Rikitake Two-Disk Dynamo"",International Journal of Nonlinear Science,,2012 |
| 2012 | Qais H. Alsafasfeh,, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader,, Ahmad M. Harb,,""Fault Classification and Localizationin Power Systems Using Fault Signatures and Principal Components Analysis"",Energy and Power Engineering,,Scientific Research, 2012.,2012 |
| 2011 | Ghassan M. Tashtoush,, Ahmad M. Harb,,""Assessing Energy-Saving in JUST Facilities: A case study"",International Journal of Thermal & Environmental Engineering,,Vol. 2, No. 2, 2011.,2011 |
| 2010 | A. M. Harb, 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.,2010 |
| 2010 | Alsafasfeh, Q.,, Abdel-Qader, I.,, Harb, A.,,"“Symmetrical Pattern and PCA Based Framework for Fault Detection and Classification in Power Systems,”",Proceedings of IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference,,Normal, IL,,2010 |
| 2010 | Ahmad M. Harb,, Souhib M. Harb, 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.,2010 |
| 2010 | Mohammad Widyan, 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, 2010,2010 |
| 2010 | Mohammad Widyan, 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.,2010 |
| 2009 | Ahmad M. Harb, Issam A. Smadi,,""Tracking control of DC motors via mimo nonlinear fuzzy control"",Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,,Vol. 42, Issue 2,,2009 |
| 2009 | Ahmad Harb, 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.,2009 |
| 2009 | Ala Hussein, Michael Pepper,, Issa Bataresh, Ahmad Harb,,"“Solar Charging Considerations for Common Battery Chemistries”",IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference,,IEEE VPPC09,,2009 |
| 2009 | Ala Al-Haj Hussein,, Michael Pepper,, Issa Batarseh,, Ahmad Harb,,"“An Efficient Solar Charging Algorithm for Different Battery Chemistries”,",International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods Proceedings,,p.p. 249-253, Las Vegas, NV,,2009 |
| 2008 | 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 – 803,2008 |
| 2008 | M. Widyan, Ahmad Harb,,"“Bifurcation Analysis of Subsynchronous Resonance of the IEEE Second Benchmark Model with TCSC”,",Proceeding of Intelligent Systems and Control,,ISC,Orlando, Florida, USA,,2008 |
| 2007 | Ahmad M. Harb,, Ashraf A. Zaher,, Ahmad A. Al-Qaisia, Mohammad A. Zohdy,,""Recursive Backstepping Control of Chaotic Duffing Oscillators"",Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,,Volume 34, Issue 2,,2007 |
| 2007 | Ahmad Harb,, Mohammad Al-Mothafar,, Ammar Natsheh,, Issa Batarseh,,"“ Quasi-Periodicity to Period-Doubling of Parallel –Input /Parallel – Output Boost DC-DC Converter”,",Proceedings of the Ninth IASTED International Conference, Control and Applications,Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,2007 |
| 2006 | Ahmad M. Harb,""Controlling Chaos in Josephson-Junction Using Nonlinear Backstepping Controller"",IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity,,Vol. 16, No. 4, pages 1988-1998,,2006 |
| 2005 | Ahmad M. Harb,"Application of Bifurcation Theory to Curren" Mode Controlled Parallel-Connected DC-DC Boost converters”,",International Journal of Modeling and Simulation,,Vol. 25, No. 1,,2005 |
| 2005 | Ahmad Harb,, Bassam Harb,, Qasem Qananweh,,"”Intermittency from mutually-coupled autonomous third-order phase-locked loop”,",Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Southeastern Symposium on System Theory,,SSST05, 20-22,2005 |
| 2005 | Shadi Harb,, K. Kalaldeh,, Ahmad Harb,, Issa Batarseh,,"”Interactive Java applets for power electronics E-learning”,",Power Electronics Education,,IEEE workshop,pp26-33,2005 |
| 2004 | Bassam A. Harb,, Ahmad M. Harb,,"Chaos and Bifurcation in Third-Order Phase Locked Loop”,",Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,,Vol. 19, Issue 3,2004 |
| 2004 | Ahmad M. Harb,"” Chaos control of third-order phase-locked loops using backstepping nonlinear controller”,",Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,, Volume 20, Issue 4,2004 |
| 2004 | Ahmad M. Harb,,"”Nonlinear chaos control in a permanent magnet reluctance machine”,",Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,,Vol. 19,Issue 5,,2004 |
| 2004 | Ahmad M. Harb,, M. S. Widyan,,"”Chaos and Bifurcation control of SSR in the IEEE second benchmark model”,",Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,,Vol. 21, Issue 3,,2004 |
| 2004 | Ahmad M. Harb,"“ON FUZZY CONTROL OF CHAOTIC SYSTEMS”,",Journal of Vibration and Control,,10, 979-993,,2004 |
| 2004 | Ahmad M. Harb,"“Galerkin-Based New Method for Analyzing Bifurcations in a Single Machine Infinite Busbar Power System",",Electric Power Components and Systems Journal,,2004 |
| 2004 | Ahmad M. Harb,"“Nonlinear Control of permanent magnet stepper motors”,",Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation,,2004 |
| 2003 | Wajdi M. Ahmad, Ahmad M. Harb,,"“On Nonlinear Control Design for Autonomous Systems of Integer and Fractional Orders”,",Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,,Vol. 18, Issue 4,,2003 |
| 2003 | Ahmad Harb, M. Widyan,,"”Modern nonlinear theory as applied to SSR of the IEEE second benchmark model”,",Proceedings of IEEE Bologna power tech. conference,,Bologna, Italy.,2003 |
| 2003 | A. Harb,, W. A. Al-Hussaibi,, L. M. Khadra,,""Effects of Filtering Chaotic Signals of Power Electronic Circuit",",International journal of Modeling and Simulation,Vol. 23, No. 1,,2003 |
| 2003 | Ahmad M. Harb, Nabil Abdel-Jabbar,,"” Controlling Hopf bifurcation and chaos in a small power system”,",Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,,Vol. 18, Issue 5,,2003 |
| 2003 | A. A. Al-Qaisia,, A. M. Harb,, A. A. Zaher,, M. A. Zohdy,,"“Robust Estimation-Based Control of Chaotic Behavior in an Oscillator with Inertial and Elastic Symmetric Nonlinearities”,",Journal of Vibration and Control,,Vol. 9, pp. 665-684,,2003 |
| 2003 | Bassam Harb, Ahmad Harb,,"“Controlling Chaos in A Second-Order PLL in the Presence of CW Interference”",Proceedings of Applied Simulation and Modeling, ASM2003,,Marbella-Spain,2003 |
| 2002 | Ahmad Harb,, Ashraf Zaher,, Mohammed Zohdy,,"“Nonlinear Recursive Chaos Control”,",Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC),,pp. 2251-2254,,Anchorage, Alaska,,2002 |
| 2002 | Ahmad M. Harb,, Wajdi A. Ahmad,,"“Control of Chaotic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Recursive Backstepping Controllers”,",Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Applied Simulation and Modeling,,pp. 451-454,,Crete, Greece,,2002 |
| 2002 | A. M. Harb,, A. H. Nayfeh,, L. Mili,,"``Bifurcation Control for Mitigating Subsynchronous Oscillations in Power Systems,”",Power Systems Computation Conference,,PSCC,Sevilla-Spain,2002 |
| 2002 | Ahmed Harb,, Ashraf Zaher,, Mohammed Zohdy,,"“Nonlinear Recursive Chaos Control”,",Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC),,pp. 2251-2254,,Anchorage, Alaska,,2002 |
| 2002 | Ahmad M. Harb,, Wajdi A. Ahmad,,"“Control of Chaotic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Recursive Backstepping Controllers”,",Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Applied Simulation and Modeling,,pp. 451-454,,Crete, Greece,,2002 |
| 2002 | A. M. Harb,, A. H. Nayfeh,, L. Mili,,"``Bifurcation Control for Mitigating Subsynchronous Oscillations in Power Systems,”",Power Systems Computation Conference,,PSCC,Sevilla-Spain,2002 |
| 2001 | A. M. Harb,,"“Normal Form Near the Hopf Bifurcation in Power Systems”,",Proceedings of the sixth IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems,,pp. 408-412,,Rhodes-Greece,2001 |
| 2001 | A. M. Harb,,"“Normal Form Near the Hopf Bifurcation in Power Systems”,",Proceedings of the sixth IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems,,pp. 408-412.,Rhodes-Greece,2001 |
| 2000 | A. M. Harb,, A. H. Nayfeh,, L. Mili,,"``On the Effect of Machine Saturation on Subsynchronous Oscillations in Power Systems,”",Electrical Machines and Power Systems Journal,,Vol. 28, pp.1019-1035,,2000 |
| 1998 | A. H. Nayfeh,, A. M. Harb,, C-M. Chin,, A. Hamdan,, L. Mili,,"``Application of Bifurcation Theory to Subsynchronous Resonance in Power Systems,”",International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos,,Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 157-172,,1998 |
| 1998 | A. M. Harb,, A. H. Nayfeh,, Anan M. Hamdan,, L. Mili,,"``A Bifurcation Analysis of Subsynchronous Oscillations in Power Systems,”",Electrical Power and System Research,,Vol. 47, Issue 1,,1998 |
| 1996 | A. H. Nayfeh,, A. M. Harb,, C-M. Chin,,"“Bifurcation in a Power System Model,”",International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos,,Vol. 6, No. 3,,1996 |
| 1996 | A. H. Nayfeh,, A. M. Harb,,"``Bifurcation Control of Subsynchronous Oscillations in Power Systems,”",Tunisian Scientific Society/The Network of Arab Scientists and Technologists Abroad (TSS/ASTA),,Tunisia,1996 |
| 1995 | A. H. Nayfeh,, A. M. Harb,, C-M. Chin,,"``Bifurcation and Chaos in a Power System Model,”",Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS,,Seattle, Washington,,1995 |
| 1993 | M. El-Metwaly,, A. M. Harb,,"Transmission Planning using Admittance Approach and Quadratic Programming",Electrical Machine and Power Systems Journal,,Vol. 21,,1993 |