Contact

Phone: 470-578-7381

Email: ymahmoud@kennesaw.edu

Office Location: Q 342

Office Hours:
office hours TBD

Publications

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed):

  1. Y. Mahmoud and Z. Alqaisi, "Rule Based Model for Power Peaks of Overlapped PV Arrays," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1426-1438, April 2021.
  2. M. Al-Smadi, Y. Mahmoud and W. Xiao ,"A fast and accurate approach for power losses quantification of PV power systems under partial-shading conditions", IET Renewable Power Generation, 15:939–951; 2021M.

  3. M. Al-Smadi and Y. Mahmoud, "Image-Based Differential Power Processing for Photovoltaic Microinverter," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, accepted in Oct. 2020.

  4. M. Al-Smadi and Y. Mahmoud, "Photovoltaic module cascaded converters for distributed maximum power point tracking: a review", IET Renewable Power Generation, 2020, 14, (14), p. 2551-2562. 

  5. A. Ostadrahimi and Y. Mahmoud, "Novel Spline-MPPT Technique for Photovoltaic Systems under Uniform Irradiance and Partial Shading Conditions," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, accepted in Aug. 2020.

  6. F. Aziz, A. Ul Haq, S. Ahmad, Y. Mahmoud, M. Jalal and U. Ali, "A Novel Convolutional Neural Network-Based Approach for Fault Classification in Photovoltaic Arrays," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 41889-41904, 2020.

  7. I. Khalil, A. Ul-Haq, Y. Mahmoud, M. Jalal, "Comparative Analysis of Photovoltaic Faults and Performance Evaluation of its Detection Techniques," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 26676-26700, 2020.

  8. Z. Alqaisi and Y. Mahmoud, "Comprehensive Study of Partially Shaded PV Modules With Overlapping Diodes," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 172665-172675, 2019.

  9. Y. Mahmoud and W. Xiao, "Evaluation of Shunt Model for Simulating Photovoltaic Modules," in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1818-1823, Nov. 2018.

  10. Y. Mahmoud and E. F. El-Saadany, "Enhanced Reconfiguration Method for Reducing Mismatch Losses in PV Systems," in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1746-1754, Nov. 2017.

  11. A. Ul-Haq, M. Azhar, Y. Mahmoud, A. Perwaiz, EA. Al-Ammar, "Probabilistic Modeling of Electric Vehicle Charging Pattern Associated with Residential Load for Voltage Unbalance Assessment", Energies, 10 (9), 1351, 2017.

  12. Y. Mahmoud and E. F. El-Saadany, "A Novel MPPT Technique Based on an Image of PV Modules," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 213-221, March 2017.

  13. Y. Mahmoud, M. Abdelwahed and E. F. El-Saadany, "An Enhanced MPPT Method Combining Model-Based and Heuristic Techniques," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 576-585, April 2016.

  14. Y. Mahmoud and E. El-Saadany, "Accuracy Improvement of the Ideal PV Model," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 909-911, July 2015.

  15. Y. Mahmoud and E. F. El-Saadany, "A Photovoltaic Model With Reduced Computational Time," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 3534-3544, June 2015.

  16. Y. A. Mahmoud, W. Xiao and H. H. Zeineldin, "A Parameterization Approach for Enhancing PV Model Accuracy," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 5708-5716, Dec. 2013.

  17. Y. Mahmoud, W. Xiao and H. H. Zeineldin, "A Simple Approach to Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Modules," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 185-186, Jan. 2012. 

Patents:

Y. Mahmoud, “Irradiance based solar panel power point tracking“, US 20180198285 A1, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Jul 12, 2018.

Conference Papers (Peer Reviewed):

  1. H. Iles and Y. Mahmoud, "Power based Fault Detection Method for PV Arrays," IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2021, pp. 1-6.
  2. F. Li, M. Valero, L. Zhao, Y. Mahmoud, "Cybersecurity Strategy against Cyber Attacks towards Smart Grids with PVs" 2020 KSU Conference on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, Marietta, USA, 2020.
  3. M. K. Al-Smadi and Y. Mahmoud, "Comparative Analysis of Partial Shading Power Losses in Photovoltaic Topologies," 2019 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), Otranto, Italy, 2019, pp. 699-704.
  4. Z. Alqaisi and Y. Mahmoud, "A Study of Partially-Shaded PV Modules with Overlapping Diodes," 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 3388-3393.
  5. Z. Alqaisi and Y. Mahmoud, "Comprehensive Approach of Estimating Power-Peaks of Partially Shaded PV Strings with Overlapping Bypass Diodes," 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 2033-2038.
  6. M. K. Al-Smadi and Y. Mahmoud, "Analysis of Photovoltaic Systems Power Losses in Partial Shading Conditions," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, 2018, pp. 1699-1704.
  7. M. K. Al-Smadi, Y. Hu and Y. Mahmoud, "LQR-based PID Voltage Controller for Photovoltaic Systems," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, 2018, pp. 1854-1859.
  8. Y. Mahmoud, "A Model-based MPPT with Improved Tracking Accuracy," IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington, DC, 2018, pp. 1609-1612.
  9. Y. Mahmoud, "Toward a long-term evaluation of MPPT techniques in PV systems," 2017 IEEE 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), San Diego, CA, 2017, pp. 1106-1113.
  10. Y. Mahmoud and E. El-Saadany, "Fast reconfiguration algorithm for improving the efficiency of PV systems," 2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), Amman, 2017.
  11. Y. Mahmoud and A. Ulhaq, "Computational time quantification of the single diode PV models," 2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), Amman, 2017, pp. 1-5.
  12. Y. Mahmoud and E. El-saadany, "Accuracy comparison between Gompertz and polynomial based PV models," 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Montreal, QC, 2015, pp. 3278-3281.
  13. Y. Mahmoud and E. El-Saadany, "Improving the Accuracy of the Single Diode PV models at low Irradiances", IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), Oshawa, Canada, 11-13 Aug. 2014.
  14. Y. Mahmoud and E. El-Saadany,"Photovoltaic Model with Enhanced Computational Speed", CIGRÉ Canada Conference on Power Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 22–24, 2014.
  15. Y. Mahmoud and E. El-Saadany, "Comparison Study of the Single Diode Photovoltaic Models", IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), Oshawa, Canada, 11-13 Aug. 2014.
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