Simulating Power Electronic Circuits using Python

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome

Lecture 1: Welcome

Chapter 2: Introduction

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Concept of simulation

Lecture 3: Open source software in electrical engineering

Lecture 4: Python Power Electronics – an open source circuit simulator

Lecture 5: Target audience of the course

Chapter 3: Installing software

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Introduction to Anaconda Python

Lecture 3: Windows – installing Anaconda

Lecture 4: Linux/Mac – installing Anaconda

Lecture 5: Environments in Anaconda

Lecture 6: Windows – setting up Anaconda environments

Lecture 7: Linux/Mac – setting up Anaconda environments

Lecture 8: Setting up an environment for Python Power Electronics

Lecture 9: Changes to the download links

Lecture 10: Windows – installing and setting up Python Power Electronics

Lecture 11: Linux/Mac – installing the dependencies for Python Power Electronics

Lecture 12: Linux/Mac – installing and setting up Python Power Electronics

Lecture 13: Windows – launching Python Power Electronics

Lecture 14: Linux/Mac – launching Python Power Electronics

Lecture 15: Editors for Python programming

Lecture 16: Conclusion

Chapter 4: Simulating Basic Resistive Circuits

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Choosing a circuit to simulate

Lecture 3: "Drawing" the circuit in a spreadsheet

Lecture 4: Rules for drawing circuits in spreadsheets

Lecture 5: Understanding parameters of a simulation

Lecture 6: Creating a new simulation

Lecture 7: Adding a circuit schematic to the simulation

Lecture 8: Parameters of circuit components

Lecture 9: Editing the parameters of components in the simulation

Lecture 10: Running the simulation

Lecture 11: Backing up the parameters of the circuit

Lecture 12: Conclusions

Chapter 5: Energy storage in electrical circuits

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Magnetic field basics

Lecture 3: Electromagnets

Lecture 4: Inductors

Lecture 5: Induced EMF produced by inductors

Lecture 6: Inductors – Laws and formulae

Lecture 7: Capacitors

Lecture 8: Capacitors – Laws and formulae

Lecture 9: Comparing inductors and capacitors

Lecture 10: Conclusions

Chapter 6: Basic nonlinear circuits

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Diodes

Lecture 3: Test circuit to examine the working of a diode

Lecture 4: Parameters of a diode

Lecture 5: When the diode is forward biased

Lecture 6: When the diode is reverse biased

Lecture 7: When an AC voltage is applied across the diode

Lecture 8: Concept of rectification

Lecture 9: Setting up the rectifier simulation

Lecture 10: Simulating the basic rectifier

Lecture 11: Analysis of the basic rectifier and the need for energy storage

Lecture 12: Adding a capacitor to the output

Lecture 13: Change in the operation of the rectifier with a capacitor at the output

Lecture 14: Analyzing the effect of addition of the capacitor

Lecture 15: Increasing the value of the capacitance and analyzing the result

Lecture 16: The need for an inductor as a current limiter and energy buffer

Lecture 17: Adding the inductor and analyzing the results

Lecture 18: Conclusions

Chapter 7: Tutorial on Python programming

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Launching the interactive Jupyter notebook

Lecture 3: Integer data types

Lecture 4: Float data types

Lecture 5: String data types

Lecture 6: List data types

Lecture 7: Dictionary data types

Lecture 8: Iterable objects

Lecture 9: In-built functions available in Python

Lecture 10: User defined functions

Lecture 11: Conditionals

Lecture 12: Programming challenge

Chapter 8: Writing control functions in Python Power Electronics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How a control function is evaluated by the simulator

Lecture 3: IO ports of a controller

Lecture 4: Inputs to a control function

Lecture 5: Basic computation with inputs

Lecture 6: Time event variables to achieve digital control

Lecture 7: Common timing problems

Lecture 8: Need for internal variables with memory

Lecture 9: Static variables

Lecture 10: Controllable voltage source – a component that can be regulated through control

Lecture 11: Output variables

Lecture 12: Variable resistors and variable inductors

Lecture 13: Commonly occuring errors with control code

Lecture 14: Conclusion

Chapter 9: Simulating a buck converter

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Jumpers or connectors in circuits

Lecture 3: The ideal switch component