Bifurcation analysis of nonisothermal nonlinear polymerization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2754-2766

  Papavasiliou, Georgia ^a   Teymour, Fouad ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE-RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GEL FORMATION; MULTIPLICITY STRUCTURES; POLYMER PROPERTIES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); NUMERICAL METHODS; SOL-GELS;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 18144384251     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049434j     Document Type: Article

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