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Latest Publications 

(2003 ------------- 10/ 2007 )

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R. Mittra, Lai-Ching Ma and Nader Farahat, " A Case for Rigorous Numerical Simulation to Model Antenna Metamaterial Composites", Metamaterials 2007, Rome, Italy, October 2007.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra, Jose Carrion,  "Analysis of Optical Fiber Waveguides using the Body of Revolution Version of the Finite Difference Time Domain Method.", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. to appear in Oct. 2007.

Jose Carrion, Nader Farahat and Raj Mittra, " Numerical Modeling of Patch Antenna Covered by Frequency Selective Surface", AP-S07, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2007.

Jonathan N Bringuie, Raj Mittra and Nader Farahat, " A novel approach to constructing the Green's Function for layered media and its application to MMIC, RFIC and EMC problems", AP-S07, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2007.

Nathan Ida and Nader Farahat, "Open Stripline Resonator Sensor for Gauging in Industrial Applications", ACES -07 Verona, Italy, March 2007.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Jose Carrion, " Analysis of Optical Fiber Waveguides Using the Body of Revolution Version of the FDTD", Aces-07, Verona, Italy, March 2007.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra, Jose Carrion, Jesus Sanchez, "Numerical Analysis of Large Reflector System used as a Ground Station Antenna.", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. Mar. 2007.

Marvi Teixeira and Yamil Rodriguez; A New Development for Cyclic Convolution: The Super Block Pseudocirculant Matrix. Accepted for Presentation at the IEEE 2007 Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey, May 2007.

Zaharov V.V., Kokhanov A.B.,Performance Analysis of Angle Modulated MQAM  Transmission Techniques,  Proceedings of International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Feb. 2007. 

Viktor  Zaharov, Angel Gonzales, James Acosta and Marvi Teixeira, Implementing a Vector RLS Smart Antenna Beamformer with Xilinx System Generator,  Proceedings of International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, Feb.2007.

Teixeira, M.; Warn-Varnas, A.; Apel, J., and Hawkings, J.,  Observational and analytical studies of internal solitary waves in the Yellow Sea.  Journal of Coastal Research, November 2006.

Nader Farahat and Jose Nieves, " Modeling Frequency Selective Surfaces used in Satellite Communication Antennas", Andescon-06, Quito, Nov 8-10, 2006.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Neng-Tien Huang, “Modeling Large Phased Array Antennas Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method and the Characteristic Basis Function Approach”,  ACES Journal special issue on Phased Array Antennas, September 2006.

José Carrión and Nader Farahat "PML Termination of  Conducting Media in the Finite Difference Time Domain Method for Bodies of Revolution (BORs)" CEM-TD Special Issue International Journal of Numerical Modeling, John Wiley. October 2006.

Raj Mittra and Nader Farahat. "New Interpretations of the Electromagnetic Characteristics of Metamaterials at Microwave Frequencies and their Comparisons with the Conventional Equivalent Medium Theories", 11th International Conference on Complex Media and Metamaterials, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 25-27 September 2006.

Angel Gonzalez and James Acosta. "FPGA Based Control Scheme For Active Power Filter " Accepted for presentation at the IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, August 15-18, Caracas, Venezuela.

Viktor Zaharov, and Alexander Kokhanov, “ High Spectral Efficiency Modulation Technique for Wireless Multipath Fading Channel, Accepted for Publication at the Midwest Symposium on Signal and Systems, San Juan, PR August 6-9 2006.

Viktor Zaharov, and Marvi Teixeira, "Adaptive digital non-blind Beamformer for Small number of snapshots.  49th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS'06), Puerto Rico,  August 6-9, 2006.

De Jesús, M., M. Teixeira, L. Vicente, Y. Rodriguez, “Nonuniform Discrete Short Time Fourier Transform. A Goertzel Filter Bank versus a FIR Filtering View Approach”. 49th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS'06), Puerto Rico,  August 6-9, 2006.

Nader Farahat, Jose Nieves and Raj Mittra, " Use of Spectral FDTD to Analyze Patch Type Frequency Selective Surfaces," AP-S06  Washington DC, July 3-8, 2006

Othoniel Rodriguez, Carlos Pacheco. "REDUCING THE DEVELOPMENT COSTS FOR ACTIVE AND INTERACTIVE LEARNING OBJECTS THROUGH WEB-BASED COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING" Accepted for presentation at session 1693: Emerging Trends in Engineering Education of the Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session. ASEE annual conference, June, 2006. Chicago.

Zaharov V., Acosta J. "Switched beam Smart Antenna for mobile communication networks, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico Magazine, 2006 issue.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Neng-Tien Huang, “Modeling Large Phased Array Antennas Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method and the Characteristic Basis Function Approach”  8th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering, to be held May 25-26, 2006, in Stellenbosch, South Africa, accepted for presentation.

 Nader Farahat and Raj Mittra, “Multiscale Analysis of Panel Gaps in the Haystack Parabolic Reflector,” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society  Journal (ACES), Vol. 21, No.1, March 2006, pp. 72-75.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Jose Carrion, "Finite Difference Time Domain Modeling of a Corrugated Horn Antenna as a Radar System Feed", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. Nov. 2005.

Nader Farahat, Scott Dufore and Nathan Ida, “Stripline Resonator as a Moisture Sensor for Industrial Applications”, MTT 2006 Conference, San Francisco, California, June 2006, (under review).

Hany Abdel-Raouf, Nader Farahat, Ji-Fu Ma, Neng-Tien Huang and Raj Mittra, “A Novel FDTD Based Approach for Solving Very Large Problems” , Accepted for ACES Conference, Miami, Florida, March 2006.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Neng-Tien Huang, “Modeling Large Phased Array Antennas Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method and the Characteristic Basis Function Approach”, Accepted for ACES Conference, Miami, Florida, March 2006.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Jesus Sanchez, “Numerical Analysis of Large Reflector System used as a Ground Station Antenna”, Accepted for IEEE Aerospace Conference, Bigsky, Montana, March 2006.

Kokhanov A. B., Zaharov V. V. " Modified Signal Processing Algorithms Based on the Hartley Transform", Journal of Communication Technology and Electronics, Silver Spring, MD. Translated from Journal of Russia Academy of Science: Radiotekhnika i Elektronika", Vol. 50 No. 12, 2005, pp. 1476-1481. ISSN: 0033-8494.

Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Jose Carrion, “Finite Difference Time Domain Modeling of a Corrugated Horn Antenna as a Radar System Feed,” Submitted to Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. Will appear in the November 20, 2005 Issue.

Angel Gonzalez and Raul Ordonez, "Adaptive Control Scheme for Plants with Time-varying Structure Using On-line Parameter Estimation", Joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC'05), Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005.

Nader Farahat, Jose Carrion and Leandro Morales, "PML Termination of Conducting Media in the FDTD Method for Bodies of Revolution (BORs)", 2005 Workshop on Computational Electromagnetics in Time-Domain (CEM-TD), September 12 - 14, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, MTTS, IEEE. Accepted for Presentation.

Marvi Teixeira, Miguel De Jesus, Yamil Rodriguez, "Algorithms for Parallel FFTs and Parallel Cyclic Convolution with Regular Structure and no Processor Intercommunication", HPEC 2005: Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing, Lincoln Laboratories, MIT, Lexington, Massachusetts, September 2005. Accepted for Presentation.

Joscha Bach, Dietrich Dörner, Jürgen Gerdes, Armin Zundel, "Psi and MicroPsi - Building Blocks for a Cognitive Architecture" KogWis2005, Basel Switzerland. September 2005. Accepted for Presentation.

Othoniel Rodriguez, "Reduciendo el costo de desarrollo para modulos instruccionales interactivos y multimedia mediante herramienta para autoria colaborativa en el Internet," International Conference on Distance Education, ICDE, UPR, San Juan, Puerto Rico,August 2005.

 Jorge Agosto, Nader Farahat and Raj Mittra, “Analysis of Inter-element Mutual Coupling in Wireless Antenna Array Using Finite Difference Time Domain Method,” IEEE, AP-S05, Washington DC, July 3-8, 2005. 

 Jose Carrion and Nader Farahat, “Analysis of Discontinuities in Circular Waveguides using Finite Difference Time Domain Method,” IEEE, AP-S05, Washington DC, July 3-8, 2005. 

 Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Jesus Sanchez, “Analysis of the Surface-Deflection Effect on the Performance of the Haystack Reflector Antenna,” IEEE, AP-S05, Washington DC, July 3-8, 2005. 

V. Zaharov and M. Teixeira, "Modified Implementations of RLS Digital Beamforming"  (accepted for publication). 2005 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Washington, DC, USA on July 3-8, 2005.

 Nader Farahat, Raj Mittra and Jorge Agosto, “Mutual Coupling in Interconnect Lines; Analysis Using Finite Difference Time Domain Method,” SPI05, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, May 10-13, 2005. 

Nader Farahat and Raj Mittra, “Multiscale Analysis of Panel Gaps in the Haystack Parabolic Reflector,” ACES05 Honolulu, Hawaii, April 3-7, 2005. 

S.Chin-Bing, A. Warn-Varnas, K. Lamb, M. Teixeira and J. Hawkins. Analysis of coupled oceanograhic and acoustic soliton simulations in the Yellow Sea: a search for soliton induced resonance,   Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 62:11-20, 2003

Warn-Varnas, A; Chin-Bing, S.; Hawkings, J,; Lamb, K., and Teixeira, M.Yellow Sea ocean-acoustic solitary wave modeling studies. Journal of Geophysical Research JGR, Vol.110, 2005.

"Plasma Processing of Municipal Solid Waste" E. Leal-Quiros.  Brazilian Journal of Physics, vol 34, no. 4B, December, 2004.

A. Cruz, A Hybrid Deterministic/Genetic Test Generator to Improve Fault Effectiveness and Reduce CPU Time Run", 2004 Congress Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Portland, Oregon, June  , 2004

“Magmavication-Vitrification, Gasification and Generation of Energy with High Temperature Plasma Processing of Waste” E. Leal-Quirós, Ph.D.,  5th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research”, Washington DC, March 24-28, 2003.

 Plasma Processing of Municipal Solid Waste" E. Leal-Quiros. Ph.D.  X Latin America Workshop on Plasma Physics, XLAWPP and 7th Brazilian Meeting on Plasma Physics. Sao Pedro, SP, Brazil, November 2003.

 

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Student Conferences
1st ACS Junior Technical Meeting & 26th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, 03/10/06

 

Acosta, James,  González Angel. "FPGA Based Control Scheme For Active Power Filter", (PRISM) University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. 03/10/06

Carrion, Jose, Farahat Nader, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. "Phase Center Analysis of Axially-Symmetric Feeds Using Finite Difference Time Domain Method of Bodies of Revolution" (PRISM) University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. 03/10/06

 

2nd Scientific Poster Exhibiton for Graduate and Undergraduate Students at PUPR, November 23rd, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

José Carrión y Jesús Sánchez, - Modeling Cassegrain Reflector System Using Finite Difference Time Domain Method of Bodies of Revolution. Advisor: Dr. Nader Farahat, PUPR.

José R. Moreira Ferrer, - Channel Capacity of the Satellite Mimo Communications. Advisor: Dr. Víktor V. Zahárov, PUPR.

 

James Acosta, -Switched beam smart antenna with beam-space processing. Advisor: Dr. Víktor V. Zahárov, PUPR. Supported by PRIDCO.

James Acosta, – FPGA Programming Model for Switching Control in Active Power Filtering. Advisor: Dr. Angel González, PUPR.
 

Leandro Morales, – Third Generation Base Station Implementation with Smart Antenna Processor. Advisor: Víktor V. Zahárov, PUPR.

César Cabrera, Wence López,  - Implementation of a Two Dimension Position Control with Linear Transformation Matrices Using a FPGA. Advisor: Dr. Angel E. González, PUPR.

 

 

Student Conference: 25th PR Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting March 12, 2005, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Poster Presentations / Abstract Proceedings

Leandro Morales, graduate student,  Advisor: Dr. Viktor V. Zaharov.Smart, Antenna Beamformer Implementation. 

James Acosta, graduate student, Advisor: Dr. Viktor V. Zaharov. Switched Beam Smart Antenna with Beam - Space Processing. 

Miguel De Jesus, graduate student. Advisor: Dr. Marvi Teixeira,  Antenna Array Pattern Synthesis with Prescribed Nulls: a Non-Uniform DFT Approach. 

Jesus Sanchez, Miguel De Jesus, graduate students. Advisor: Dr. Nader Farahat & Dr. Marvi Teixeira. Radiation Pattern from Microwave Reflectors with Random Surface Errors.   

Miguel De Jesus, Yamil Rodriguez, Iliamelis Soto, graduate students. Advisor: Dr. Marvi Teixeira.  Algorithms for Parallel Cyclic Convolution. 

Student Conference: Computing Research Conference 2004, April 4th, 2004, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Poster Presentations / Full-Paper Proceedings

 

Morales L. and V. Zaharov, Smart Antenna Adaptive Algorithms Development for 3G Cellular Communication with Training Signal , CRC 2004, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Cabrera D., J. Rodriguez and V. Zaharov., Switched Beam Smart Antenna BER Performance Analysis for 3G CDMA Cellular Communication ,  CRC 2004, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

De Jesus M, Y. Rodriguez, M. Teixeira, and L. Vicente, Non-Uniform Discrete Short-Time Fourier Transform A Goertzel Filter Bank ApproachCRC 2004, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

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