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Nikolaos K. Kazantzis

Publications

Peer-Reviewed (Refereed) Journal Articles

• M. E. Ayturk, N. Kazantzis and Y. H. Ma, 2009, " Modeling and Performance Assessment of Pd- and Pd/Au-based Catalytic Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Production ", Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 2, pp. 430-438

• N. Kazantzis, 2009, " Map Invariance and the State Reconstruction Problem for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems ", European Journal of Control, vol. 15, pp. 105-119

• M. Xiao, N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 2008, " On the Nonlinear Discrete-Time Observer Design Problem ", International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, vol. 4, pp. 3-11

• R.R. Kotdawala, N. Kazantzis and R. W. Thompson, 2008, "Molecular simulation studies of adsorption of hydrogen cyanide and methyl ethyl ketone on zeolite NaX and activated carbon", Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 159, pp. 169-176

• A. Lewis, N. Kazantzis, I. Fishtik and J. Wilcox, 2007, "Integrating Process Safety and Molecular Modeling - Based Risk Assessment of Chemicals Within the REACH Regulatory Framework: Benefits and Future Challenges ", Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 142, pp. 592-602.

• R. R. Kotdawala, A. O. Yazaydin, N. Kazantzis and R. W. Thompson, 2007, " A Molecular Simulation Approach to the Study of Adsorption of Hydrogen Cyanide and Methyl Ethyl Ketone in Silicalite, Mordenite, and Zeolite Beta Structures", Molecular Simulation, vol. 33, pp. 843-850

• C. Kravaris, V. Sotiropoulos, C. Georgiou, N. Kazantzis, M. Xiao, and A. J. Krener, 2007, " Nonlinear Observer Design for State and Disturbance Estimation", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 56, pp. 730-735.

• R. R. Kotdawala, N. Kazantzis and R. W. Thompson, 2007, "Molecular Simulation Studies on the Adsorption of Mercuric Chloride" , Environmental Chemistry, vol. 4, pp. 55-64.

• N. Kazantzis, 2007, "Discussion on Attenuation of Oscillations in Galerkin Systems Using Center-Manifold Techniques", European Journal of Control, vol. 13, pp. 543-551.

• C. Siettos, I. G. Kevrekidis and N. Kazantzis, 2006, An Equation-Free Approach to Nonlinear Control: Coarse Feedback Linearization With Pole-Placement, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 16, pp. 2029 - 2042.

• N. Kazantzis, C. Kravaris, C. Tseronis and R. A. Wright, 2005, " Optimal Controller Tuning for Nonlinear Processes ", Automatica, vol. 41, pp. 79-86.

• N. Kazantzis, N. Huynh and R. A. Wright, 2005, " Nonlinear Observer Design for the Slow States of a Singularly Perturbed System ", Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 797-806.

• M. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, 2005, Natural Observer Design for Singularly Perturbed Vector Second Order Systems, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, vol. 127, pp. 648-655.

• N. Kazantzis and M. Demetriou, 2005, "Singular Control-Invariance PDEs for Nonlinear Systems", SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 3, pp. 731-748.

• M. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, 2005, " A New Integrated Output Feedback Controller Synthesis and Collocated Actuator/Sensor Scheduling Framework for Distributed Parameter Processes ", Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 867-876.

• R.R. Kotdawala, N. Kazantzis and R.W. Thompson, 2005, An application of mean-field perturbation theory for the adsorption of polar molecules in nanoslit-pores, Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 38, pp. 333-352

• N. Kazantzis and R. A. Wright, 2005, Nonlinear observer design in the presence of delayed output measurements, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 54, pp. 877-886

• R. R. Kotdawala, N. Kazantzis and R. W. Thompson, 2005, Analysis of Binary Adsorption of Polar and Non-Polar Molecules in Narrow Slit-Pores by Mean-Field Perturbation Theory, Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 123, pp. 1-11.

• N. Huynh and N. Kazantzis, 2005, Parametric Optimization of Digitally Controlled Nonlinear Reactor Dynamics Using Zubov-Like Functional Equations , Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 38, pp. 499-519.

• N. Kazantzis, N. Huynh and T. Good, 2005, A Model-Based Characterization of the Long-Term Asymptotic Behavior of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Processes Using Invariance Functional Equations, Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 2346-2354.

• N. Kazantzis, K. T. Chong, J. H. Park, and A. G. Parlos, 2005, Control- Relevant Discretization of Nonlinear Systems With Time-Delay Using Taylor-Lie Series, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 127, pp. 153-159

• C. Kravaris, M. Niemiec and N. Kazantzis, 2004, "Singular PDEs and the Assignment of Zero Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 51, pp. 67-77.

• N. Kazantzis, 2004, New Approach to the Zero Dynamics Assignment Problem for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems Using Functional Equations, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 51, pp. 311-324.

• N. Kazantzis and R. A. Wright, 2004, " On the Nonlinear Dynamic State Reconstruction Problem for Chemical/Biochemical Reaction Systems in the Presence of Model Uncertainty ", Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, vol. 36, pp. 169-190.

• M. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, 2004, A New Moving Actuator Activation Policy for Performance Enhancement of Controlled Diffusion Processes, Automatica, vol. 40, pp. 415-421.

• M. Demetriou and N. Kazantzis, 2004, " Compensation of Spatiotemporally Varying Disturbances for Nonlinear Transport Processes Via Actuator Scheduling ", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 14, pp. 181-197.

• N. Kazantzis, 2003, Invariance Inducing Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems, Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 13, pp. 579-601.

• N. Kazantzis and T. Good, 2003, Invariant Manifolds and the Calculation of the Long-Term Asymptotic Response of Nonlinear Processes Using Singular PDEs, Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 999-1012.

• M. Xiao, N. Kazantzis, C. Kravaris and A. J. Krener, 2003, Nonlinear Discrete-Time Observer Design With Linearizable Error Dynamics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, pp. 622-626.

• S. Dubljevic and N. Kazantzis, 2002, "A New Lyapunov Design Approach for Nonlinear Systems Based on Zubov's Method", Automatica, vol. 38, pp. 1999-2007.

• N. Kazantzis, 2002, "On the Existence and Uniqueness of Analytic Invertible Solutions of a System of Nonlinear Functional Equations", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 146, pp. 301-308.

• N. Kazantzis, 2001, "A Functional Equations Approach to Nonlinear Discrete-Time Stabilization Through Pole-Placement", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 43, pp. 361-369.

• N. Kazantzis, 2001, "On Invariant Manifolds of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Input-Driven Dynamical Systems", Physics Letters A, vol. 292, pp. 107-114.

• R. Wright, C. Kravaris and N. Kazantzis, 2001, "Model-Based Synthesis of Nonlinear PI and PID Controllers", AICHE Journal, vol. 47, pp. 1805-1818.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 2001, "Discrete-Time Nonlinear Observer Design Using Functional Equations", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 42, pp. 81-94.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 2000, "Synthesis of State Feedback Regulators for Nonlinear Processes", Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 55, pp. 3437-3449.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 2000, "Singular PDEs and the Single-Step Formulation of Feedback Linearization With Pole-Placement," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 39, pp. 115-122.

• N. Kazantzis, 2000, "Singular PDEs and the problem of finding invariant manifolds for nonlinear dynamical systems", Physics Letters A, vol. 272, pp. 257-263.

• N. Kazantzis, C. Kravaris and R. Wright, 2000, "Nonlinear Observer Design for Process Monitoring", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 39, pp. 408-419.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 1999, "Time-Discretization of Nonlinear Control Systems via Taylor Methods", Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 23, pp. 763-784.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 1999, "Energy-Predictive Control: A New Synthesis Approach for Nonlinear Control," Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 54, pp. 1697-1709.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 1998, "Nonlinear Observer Design Using Lyapunov's Auxiliary Theorem ," Systems and Control Letters, vol. 34, pp. 241-247.

• N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 1997, "System-Theoretic Properties of Sampled-Data Representations of Nonlinear Systems Obtained via Taylor-Lie Series," International Journal of Control, vol. 67, pp. 997-1020.

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