Continuity of velocity gradients in suspensions of rod-like molecules

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 729-758

  Otto, Felix ^a   Tzavaras, Athanasios E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

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EID: 37449002302     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-007-0373-5     Document Type: Article

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