Dear Colleagues,

The ever-expanding computational and memory capacity of computers has meant that electromagnetic and circuit simulation are being increasingly deployed. The use of simulation offers the possibility to accelerate the time-to-market of new converters, discrete devices, or entire assemblies for energy conversion by drastically reducing prototyping time. Simulation models can reach high degrees of detail and it is now increasingly common to couple several related physical phenomena through the so-called multi-physics simulation.

Next to simulations based purely on software, they are developing more ways for systems to use hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), in which the dynamic physical system to control is emulated through hardware architectures in a position to reproduce the physical behavior of the real system, or its parts, through the interpretation of a real-time mathematical representation of the same system. It is for these reasons that the platforms for HIL simulation are becoming an essential tool for the testing of embedded systems.

Modeling and simulation are therefore becoming fundamental tools, as much for industrial design as for academic research, in understanding and predicting the operations and performances of converters and electric drives and their control techniques, conversion devices, as well as magnetic components, such as inductors and transformers. However, simulation and modeling have many challenging aspects that have engaged the research efforts of the scientific community; for instance, methodologies for building reliable models, the integration of different modalities of modeling and simulation, the development of efficient formulations from the point of view of time computing, and the development of adequately matching and converging models for the recent technologies of wide-bandgap power devices.

This Special Issue aims to address all subjects of scientific interest in the field of power electronics and electric drives that look both to specific applications on individual components and systems in their completeness and complexity.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Numerical methods for circuit and electromagnetic field simulation;
• Loss characterization and prediction of passive components;
• Modeling, simulation for EMI analysis and reduction methods in power electronics
• Multi-physics system modeling of power converters
• Electrical and thermal modeling of power switches
• Simulation for design and optimization
• Methodologies, and instruments for model verification
• Multi-modal and Multiphysics simulation
• Real-time and HIL simulation
• Digital twining

Technical Committee Member:
Mr. Riccardo Mandrioli, University of Bologna
Dr. Lionel Pichon, Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Electronique de Paris, CNRS
Dr. Sante Pugliese, Kiel University
Dr. Riccardo Torchio, University of Padova

Dr. Vincenzo Cirimele
Dr. Riccardo Ruffo
Guest Editors

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• power electronics
• modeling
• converter control
• electric drives
• simulation
• HIL
• multiphysics
• wide-bandgap devices
• optimization