Traveling Waves for Anomalous Diffusion in Polymers

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-12

  Swaminathan, S ^a   Edwards, D A ^b  

^a University of Delaware ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case II diffusion; Polymer penetrant systems; Traveling wave solutions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; HYDROGELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRESS RELAXATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; CASE II DIFFUSION; POLYMER-PENETRANT SYSTEMS; TRAVELING-WAVE ANALYSIS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0942289485     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(04)90002-X     Document Type: Article

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