Mixing of viscous polymer liquids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1411-1416

  Stokes, Jason R ^a   Boger, David V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VISCOELASTIC FLOW;

EID: 0034078037     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870392     Document Type: Article

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