An improved boundary element method for analysis of profile polymer extrusion

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-89

  Nguyen Thien, T ^a   Tran Cong, T ^a   Phan Thien, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Domain integral transformation; Particular solution; Profile polymer extrusion

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EXTRUSION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POLYMERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISCOELASTICITY;

DOMAIN INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION; PROFILE POLYMER EXTRUSION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031175671     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0955-7997(97)00060-x     Document Type: Article

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