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Comparative Photometry of the Quiet Quasar PDS 456 and the Radio-Loud Blazar 3C 273

  • Alberto Silva Betzler,
  • Ingrid dos Santos Delfino,
  • Agábio Brasil dos Santos,
  • Roberto Mendes Dias and
  • Orahcio Felicio de Sousa

15 September 2025

A comparative analysis of the photometric variability of the blazar 3C 273 and the quasar PDS 456 using multi-band data from ground- and space-based platforms (2015–2025) reveals contrasting behaviors. For 3C 273, a statistically significant se...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,336 Views
21 Pages

Physical Variable Measurement Techniques for Fault Detection in Electric Motors

  • Sarahi Aguayo-Tapia,
  • Gerardo Avalos-Almazan,
  • Jose de Jesus Rangel-Magdaleno and
  • Juan Manuel Ramirez-Cortes

18 June 2023

Induction motors are widely used worldwide for domestic and industrial applications. Fault detection and classification techniques based on signal analysis have increased in popularity due to the growing use of induction motors in new technologies su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Early Detection of Faults in Induction Motors)
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  • Open Access
541 Views
21 Pages

13 March 2026

This paper presents a comprehensive study on constructing exact and approximate solutions to Cauchy problems for time-fractional systems with variable coefficients. An innovative iterative approach is developed for solving functional equations with i...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,200 Views
17 Pages

14 August 2020

Unexpected failures commonly occur in industrial equipment, and condition monitoring could significantly improve the efficiency of maintenance and failure of early alarm. A condition monitoring method using multi-variables state estimate technique (M...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,444 Views
14 Pages

Mawhin’s Continuation Technique for a Nonlinear BVP of Variable Order at Resonance via Piecewise Constant Functions

  • Shahram Rezapour,
  • Mohammed Said Souid,
  • Sina Etemad,
  • Zoubida Bouazza,
  • Sotiris K. Ntouyas,
  • Suphawat Asawasamrit and
  • Jessada Tariboon

In this paper, we establish the existence of solutions to a nonlinear boundary value problem (BVP) of variable order at resonance. The main theorem in this study is proved with the help of generalized intervals and piecewise constant functions, in wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Boundary Value Problems for Fractional Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,391 Views
14 Pages

24 June 2015

The identification difficulties for a dual-rate Hammerstein system lie in two aspects. First, the identification model of the system contains the products of the parameters of the nonlinear block and the linear block, and a standard least squares met...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,990 Views
18 Pages

3 January 2019

In this paper, we deal with computational uncertainty quantification for stochastic models with one random input parameter. The goal of the paper is twofold: First, to approximate the set of probability density functions of the solution stochastic pr...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,022 Views
8 Pages

The purpose of the study was to analyze the variability of performance and kinematics of different shot put techniques in elite athletes (group A: 5 athletes using the rotational technique and 3 athletes using the glide technique) and sub-elite athle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resistance Training in Physical Fitness and Sports Performance)
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  • Open Access
328 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2026

Background: The manner of breathing affects the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and corresponding processes in the body. Most studies focus on techniques prolonging breathing. Nevertheless, there are also techniques aimed at accelerating or changing o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Breath and Balance: Interdisciplinary Insights into Respiratory-Based Rehabilitation)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
156 Citations
16,427 Views
20 Pages

Monitoring Within-Field Variability of Corn Yield using Sentinel-2 and Machine Learning Techniques

  • Ahmed Kayad,
  • Marco Sozzi,
  • Simone Gatto,
  • Francesco Marinello and
  • Francesco Pirotti

3 December 2019

Monitoring and prediction of within-field crop variability can support farmers to make the right decisions in different situations. The current advances in remote sensing and the availability of high resolution, high frequency, and free Sentinel-2 im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Remote Sensing for Monitoring and Assessment of Natural Resources)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,976 Views
20 Pages

Quantifying the Variability of Phytoplankton Blooms in the NW Mediterranean Sea with the Robust Satellite Techniques (RST)

  • Emanuele Ciancia,
  • Teodosio Lacava,
  • Nicola Pergola,
  • Vincenzo Vellucci,
  • David Antoine,
  • Valeria Satriano and
  • Valerio Tramutoli

18 December 2021

Investigating the variability of phytoplankton phenology plays a key role in regions characterized by cyclonic circulation regimes or convective events, like the north-western Mediterranean Sea (NWM). The main goal of this study is to assess the pote...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing Systems for Disaster Management and Risk Mitigation)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,363 Views
24 Pages

17 March 2021

Bearings are complex components with onlinear behavior that are used to mitigate the effects of inertia. These components are used in various systems, including motors. Data analysis and condition monitoring of the systems are important methods for b...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors for Fault Diagnosis, Fault Tolerance and Resilient Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,767 Views
23 Pages

20 March 2021

In this paper, the combination of an indirect self-tuning observer, smart signal modeling, and machine learning-based classification is proposed for rolling element bearing (REB) anomaly identification. The proposed scheme has three main stages. In t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bearing Fault Detection and Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,318 Views
26 Pages

An SVM-Based Neural Adaptive Variable Structure Observer for Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of a Robot Manipulator

  • Farzin Piltan,
  • Alexander E. Prosvirin,
  • Muhammad Sohaib,
  • Belem Saldivar and
  • Jong-Myon Kim

16 February 2020

A robot manipulator is a multi-degree-of-freedom and nonlinear system that is used in various applications, including the medical area and automotive industries. Uncertain conditions in which a robot manipulator operates, as well as its nonlinearitie...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
753 Views
19 Pages

1 December 2025

In this work, a high-order modal discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method is employed to solve the Euler equations using entropy variables. Entropy conservation and stability are ensured at the spatial semi-discrete level through entropy-conserving/stable...

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  • Open Access
80 Citations
9,128 Views
13 Pages

Deciphering Soil Spatial Variability through Geostatistics and Interpolation Techniques

  • Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman,
  • Yasser M. Zakarya,
  • Mohamed M. Metwaly and
  • Georgios Koubouris

28 December 2020

Detailed knowledge of soil properties is fundamentally important for optimizing agriculture practices and management. Meanwhile, the spatial distribution of soil physicochemical properties is considered a fundamental input of any sustainable agricult...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Soil Management in a Changing Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,761 Views
16 Pages

25 October 2023

In this manuscript, we implement analytical multiple soliton wave and singular soliton wave solutions for coupled mKdV with a time-dependent variable coefficient. Based on the similarity transformation and Hirota bilinear technique, we construct both...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Singular Distributions With Special Structures and Symmetries)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
16,419 Views
19 Pages

Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) is the change in time intervals between heart beats, reflecting the autonomic nervous system’s ability to adapt to psychological and physiological demands. Slow breathing enhances parasympathetic activit...

(This article belongs to the Section Sports Medicine and Nutrition)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,036 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2020

Conservation agriculture is increasingly accepted by farmers, but the modeling studies on agro-environmental processes that characterize these agricultural systems require accurate information on the temporal variability of the soil’s main phys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Soil and Water Conservation)
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  • Open Access
248 Views
12 Pages

30 September 2026

Background/Objectives: The mechanical performance of spinal instrumentation depends on appropriate fixation of rod-securing screws. Although manufacturer-recommended torque values and torque-limiting instruments are widely used in spinal surgery, the...

(This article belongs to the Section Orthopedics and Rehabilitation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,644 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Computational Technique to Study Conformable Burgers’ Equation

  • Abdul-Majeed Ayebire,
  • Atul Pasrija,
  • Mukhdeep Singh Manshahia and
  • Shelly Arora

A fully discrete computational technique involving the implicit finite difference technique and cubic Hermite splines is proposed to solve the non-linear conformable damped Burgers’ equation with variable coefficients numerically. The proposed...

(This article belongs to the Topic Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,254 Views
15 Pages

Pre-Processing Ensemble Modeling Based on Faster Covariate Selection Calibration for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

  • Yonghong Wu,
  • Yukun Zhou,
  • Xiaojing Chen,
  • Zhonghao Xie,
  • Shujat Ali,
  • Guangzao Huang,
  • Leiming Yuan,
  • Wen Shi,
  • Xin Wang and
  • Lechao Zhang

22 October 2025

Ensemble techniques are crucial for preprocessing near-infrared (NIR) data, yet effectively integrating information from multiple preprocessing methods remains challenging. While multi-block approaches have been introduced to optimize preprocessing s...

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  • Open Access
3,925 Views
19 Pages

Solving Second-Order Linear Differential Equations with Random Analytic Coefficients about Regular-Singular Points

  • Juan-Carlos Cortés,
  • Ana Navarro-Quiles,
  • José-Vicente Romero and
  • María-Dolores Roselló

10 February 2020

In this contribution, we construct approximations for the density associated with the solution of second-order linear differential equations whose coefficients are analytic stochastic processes about regular-singular points. Our analysis is based on...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,707 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2019

Competitive optimization techniques have been developed to address the complexity of integrated water resources management (IWRM) modelling; however, model adaptation due to changing environments is still a challenge. In this paper we employ multi-va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Resources Management Strategy Under Global Change)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,788 Views
25 Pages

Direct Power Control Based on Modified Sliding Mode Controller for a Variable-Speed Multi-Rotor Wind Turbine System Using PWM Strategy

  • Habib Benbouhenni,
  • Zinelaabidine Boudjema,
  • Nicu Bizon,
  • Phatiphat Thounthong and
  • Noureddine Takorabet

18 May 2022

A robust and improved control scheme of a variable speed multi-rotor wind turbine (MRWT) system with a doubly fed asynchronous generator (DFAG) is displayed in this work. In order to improve the performances and effectiveness of the traditional direc...

(This article belongs to the Section A5: Hydrogen Energy)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,504 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Crossover Dynamics of Monkeypox Disease Mathematical Model with Time Delay: Numerical Treatments

  • Nasser H. Sweilam,
  • Seham M. Al-Mekhlafi,
  • Saleh M. Hassan,
  • Nehaya R. Alsenaideh and
  • Abdelaziz E. Radwan

In this paper, we improved a mathematical model of monkeypox disease with a time delay to a crossover model by incorporating variable-order and fractional differential equations, along with stochastic fractional derivatives, in three different time i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Solutions of Fractional Differential Equations with Their Developments)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,726 Views
22 Pages

Analyzing Heart Rate Variability for COVID-19 ICU Mortality Prediction Using Continuous Signal Processing Techniques

  • Guilherme David,
  • André Lourenço,
  • Cristiana P. Von Rekowski,
  • Iola Pinto,
  • Cecília R. C. Calado and
  • Luís Bento

28 July 2025

Background/Objectives: Heart rate variability (HRV) has been widely investigated as a predictor of disease and mortality across diverse patient populations; however, there remains no consensus on the optimal set or combination of time and frequency d...

(This article belongs to the Section Cardiology)
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1 Citations
1,887 Views
14 Pages

29 November 2022

This research presents a computational investigation of the thermal convection of a heat-generating liquid having variable viscosity in a semi-cylindrical cavity. The analysis is carried out to obtain the time patterns of the average Nusselt number a...

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64 Citations
5,525 Views
26 Pages

18 May 2021

In this study, the application of an intelligent digital twin integrated with machine learning for bearing anomaly detection and crack size identification will be observed. The intelligent digital twin has two main sections: signal approximation and...

(This article belongs to the Collection The Development and Application of Fuzzy Logic)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,442 Views
17 Pages

9 January 2020

The aim of the study was to analyze the results of surface water quality tests carried out in the Bystrzyca river basin. The study was conducted over four years in four seasons. The following chemometric techniques were used for the purposes of stati...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
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  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,859 Views
24 Pages

25 February 2021

The main reason for the development of the yield gap in crop production is the inefficient management of nitrogen (N). The nitrogen gap (NG) cannot be ameliorated without an indication and quantification of soil characteristics that limit N uptake by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Site-Specific Nutrient Management)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,352 Views
8 Pages

Variability in the Method of Gastrostomy Placement in Children

  • Jose H. Salazar,
  • Charles Spanbauer,
  • Manu R. Sood,
  • John C. Densmore and
  • Kyle J. Van Arendonk

Although gastrostomy placement is one of the most common procedures performed in children, the optimal technique remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate variability in the method of gastrostomy tube placement in children in the Uni...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Surgery)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,000 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Bulk Queueing Model with Load Balancing and Vacation

  • Subramani Palani Niranjan,
  • Suthanthiraraj Devi Latha,
  • Sorin Vlase and
  • Maria Luminita Scutaru

30 December 2024

Data center architecture plays an important role in effective server management network systems. Load balancing is one such data architecture used to efficiently distribute network traffic to the server. In this paper, we incorporated the load-balanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Statistical Methods and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,675 Views
11 Pages

30 August 2021

The exponentially increasing occurrence of soft errors makes the optimization of reliability, performance, hardware area, and power consumption one of the main concerns in modern embedded processors. Since the design cost of hardware techniques aimed...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,980 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, a variable gain prescribed performance control law is proposed for dynamic positioning (DP) of ships with positioning error constraints, input saturation and unknown external disturbances. The error performance index functions are desi...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
642 Views
15 Pages

25 November 2025

This study investigates an MX/G/1 queueing system tailored to the textile manufacturing industry, incorporating two heterogeneous service types, Bernoulli vacation schedules, and the effects of disasters and repairs. The system handles bulk fabric ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,339 Views
22 Pages

31 December 2024

Variable tooth thickness gears have significant effects on the characteristics of the flow field inside the gearbox and the lubrication efficiency under high-speed operating conditions due to their complex parameters, such as tooth profile, cone angl...

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105 Citations
3,595 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2022

This investigation focuses on two novel Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) equations with time-dependent variable coefficients that describe the nonlinear wave propagation of small-amplitude surface waves in narrow channels or large straits with slowl...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,092 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2022

The study assessed the genetic variability and the possibility of Scots pine regeneration in marshy forest. The genetic parameters were determined using the ISSR technique. The relationships between herbaceous plants, pine regeneration density, and t...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,585 Views
13 Pages

The measurement of ventilation rates is crucial in understanding buildings’ performances, but can be a rather complex task due to the time-dependency of wind and buoyancy forces, which are responsible for the pressure differences that induce ai...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,785 Views
20 Pages

Genomic Tackling of Human Satellite DNA: Breaking Barriers through Time

  • Mariana Lopes,
  • Sandra Louzada,
  • Margarida Gama-Carvalho and
  • Raquel Chaves

(Peri)centromeric repetitive sequences and, more specifically, satellite DNA (satDNA) sequences, constitute a major human genomic component. SatDNA sequences can vary on a large number of features, including nucleotide composition, complexity, and ab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Repetitive DNA Sequences in Eukaryotic Genomes)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,412 Views
14 Pages

Harnessing Machine Learning to Decode the Mediterranean’s Climate Canvas and Forecast Sea Level Changes

  • Cristina Radin,
  • Veronica Nieves,
  • Marina Vicens-Miquel and
  • Jose Luis Alvarez-Morales

22 August 2024

Climate change and rising sea levels pose significant threats to coastal regions, necessitating accurate and timely forecasts. Current methods face limitations due to their inability to fully capture nonlinear complexities, high computational costs,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing Climate Change with Artificial Intelligence Methods)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,229 Views
47 Pages

Data-Driven Load Forecasting in Microgrids: Integrating External Factors for Efficient Control and Decision-Making

  • Kevin David Martinez-Zapata,
  • Daniel Ospina-Acero,
  • Jhon James Granada-Torres,
  • Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano,
  • Natalia Gaviria-Gómez,
  • Juan Felipe Botero-Vega and
  • Sergio Armando Gutiérrez-Betancur

22 January 2026

Accurate load forecasting is essential for optimizing microgrid and smart grid operations, thereby supporting Energy Management Systems (EMSs). Load forecasting also plays a key role in integrating renewable energy, ensuring grid stability, and facil...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,602 Views
23 Pages

24 December 2023

Diagnosing knee joint osteoarthritis (KOA), a major cause of disability worldwide, is challenging due to subtle radiographic indicators and the varied progression of the disease. Using deep learning for KOA diagnosis requires broad, comprehensive dat...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,804 Views
16 Pages

7 April 2020

This paper deals with the N policy M/G/1 queue with working breakdowns. The supplementary variable and probability generating function techniques are implemented to develop the steady-state results. The stability condition of a stable queue, as well...

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  • Open Access
643 Views
17 Pages

28 January 2026

Conventional deep cement mixing (DCM) columns commonly experience performance constraints and site-specific challenges arising from heterogeneous geological and loading conditions. This study investigates the vertical stress distribution, settlement...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Pile Foundation Engineering)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
2,236 Views
16 Pages

This article examines how shocks and three-dimensional nonlinear dust-ion-acoustic waves propagate across uniform magnetized electron–positron–ion plasmas. The two-variable (G′/G,1/G)-expansion and generalized exp(−ϕ...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
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  • Open Access
797 Views
18 Pages

17 November 2025

Deep-water payload lowering operations are highly sensitive to hydrodynamic disturbances, particularly to internal solitary waves (ISWs) that are frequently observed in the South China Sea and other stratified shelf regions. This study develops a two...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,893 Views
14 Pages

24 March 2020

In real applications, obtained depth images are incomplete; therefore, depth image inpainting is studied here. A novel model that is characterised by both a low-rank structure and nonlocal self-similarity is proposed. As a double constraint, the low-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data, Signal and Image Processing and Applications in Sensors)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,305 Views
17 Pages

The Conceptual Design of a Variable Camber Wing

  • Spencer Troy P. Cortez,
  • Seksan Winyangkul and
  • Suwin Sleesongsom

The variable camber wing (VCW) is a morphing wing design anticipated to enhance unmanned aerial vehicles’ (UAVs’) performance in flight through continuously changing shape. The performance of VCWs has been proven, but techniques for their...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomimetic Design, Constructions and Devices)

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