Assoc Prof Tony Ahfock

Fields of Research (FoR)

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090699 )
  

• Electrical Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 400899 )
  

• Electrical Engineering ( 400800 )
  

Research interests
Renewable Energy, Energy Storage

Professional memberships
Fellow of The Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust) CPEng EngExec APEC Engineer IntPE(Aus)
Chartered Professional Engineer

Currently teaching courses/programs
ELE3807 Power Systems Analysis
ELE3804 Power Systems Protection

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
34 Years

Administrative responsibilities
Head of School , Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Research most recent
Menezes de Oliveira, Marilia and Wen, Peng and Ahfock, Tony (2016) Heat transfer due to electroconvulsive therapy: influence of anisotropic thermal and electrical skull conductivity. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 133. pp. 71-81. ISSN 0169-2607
Song, Bo and Wen, Peng and Ahfock, Tony and Li, Yan (2016) Numeric investigation of brain tumor influence on the current distributions during transcranial direct current stimulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , 63 (1). pp. 176-187. ISSN 0018-9294
Mirazimiabarghouei, Seyed Javad and Ahfock, Tony and Helwig, Andreas (2016) Placement of Distribution STATic COMpensator (DSTATCOM) as voltage support equipment in Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) system. In: 6th IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon 2016): Empowering Technologies for Future Energy Sustainability, 28-29 Nov 2016, Melaka, Malaysia.

Research most notable
Bowtell, L. and Ahfock, A. (2010) Direct current offset controller for transformerless single-phase photovoltaic grid-connected inverters. IET Renewable Power Generation, 4 (5). pp. 428-437. ISSN 1752-1416 Item availability may be restricted.

Ahfock, A and Hewitt, A J 2005. Curvature Related Eddy-Current Losses in Laminated Axial Flux Machine Cores, IEE Proceedings in Electrical Power Applications Vol 152, No. 5, September 2005, pp 1350-1358

Hewitt, A J and Ahfock, A 2005. Sub-Domain Scaling for Finite Element Analysis of Electrical Machines, IEE Proceedings in Electrical Power Applications Vol 152, No. 2, April 2005, pp149-156

Publications in ePrints

Mlilo, Njabulo and Ahfock, Tony and Brown, JasonORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0698-5758 (2021) Grid frequency support from inverter connected generation. In: 31st Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2021), 26 Sep -30 Sep 2021, Perth, Australia.

Mlilo, Njabulo and Brown, JasonORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0698-5758 and Ahfock, Tony (2021) Impact of intermittent renewable energy generation penetration on the power system networks – A review. Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, 6 (1):25. pp. 1-19.

Ullah, Shahid and Haidar, Ahmed M. A. and Hoole, Paul and Zen, Hushairi and Ahfock, Tony (2020) The current state of Distributed Renewable Generation, challenges of interconnection and opportunities for energy conversion based DC microgrids. Journal of Cleaner Production, 273:122777. pp. 1-23.

Ullah, Shahid and Haidar, Ahmed M. A. and Muttaqi, Kashem M. and Ahfock, Tony (2019) A distributed secondary control strategy for power sharing and voltage regulation by multiple converters in DC micro-grids. In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering (ICECIE 2019), 25 Nov 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Song, Bo and Menezes de Oliveira, Marilia and Wang, Shuaifang and Li, YanORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-4926 and Wen, PengORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-9145 and Ahfock, Tony (2019) A preliminary study of the impact of lateral head orientations on the current distributions during tDCS. In: 12th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2019), 13-15 Dec 2019, Haikou, China.

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Research supervisor in the area of:

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090699 )
  

• Electrical Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 400899 )
  

• Electrical Engineering ( 400800 )