An exact solution to the moving boundary problem with fractional anomalous diffusion in drug release devices

ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 22-28

  Junyi, Liu ^a   Mingyu, Xu ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Controlled drug release devices; Exact solution; Fractional anomalous diffusion; Fractional Green's function; Moving boundary problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642450746     PISSN: 00442267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zamm.200410074     Document Type: Article

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