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We propose a travelling-wave perturbation method to control the spatiotemporal dynamics in a cardiac model. It is numerically demonstrated that the method can successfully suppress the wave instability (alternans in action potential…
This paper proposes a novel method for the prevention of the unbounded oscillation of an aircraft wings under the flexural torsion flutter. The paper introducing the novel multiagent method for control of an aircraft wing, assuming that the…
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