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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 28.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2009 Sep 17;37(12):2606–2614. doi: 10.1007/s10439-009-9798-7

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

The flow chart of the simulation and optimization utilized in the present study to derive the feasible stability region boundaries. Simulated annealing algorithm (SAA) was adopted to conduct the optimization portion. The iteration was terminated when the improvement in the cost function was less than 10-3 for 500 consecutive function evaluations. Also shown are the values of the weights employed in the cost function.