A new constitutive theory for extrusion-extensional flow of anisotropic liquid crystalline polymer fluid
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Natural Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2150-4091,2150-4105
DOI: 10.4236/ns.2011.34040