A simulation-optimization system for the optimal design of a multilevel inverter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1037-1045

  Tourkhani, F ^a,b   Viarouge, P ^a,c   Meynard, T A ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie   (France)

Author keywords

Multilevel converter; Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTILEVEL INVERTERS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 0033357745     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.803397     Document Type: Article

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