An invariant based fitted closure of the sixth-order orientation tensor for modeling short-fiber suspensions

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1091-1115

  Jack, D A ^a   Smith, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVEN ORDER ORIENTATION TENSORS; INDUSTRIAL POLYMER COMPOSITES; POLYMER COMPOSITE PRODUCTS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLYMERS; POLYNOMIALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

TENSORS;

EID: 30344459376     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.2000970     Document Type: Article

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