Surface diffusion on stressed solid surface

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-86

  Li, Xiaofan ^a   Nie, Qing ^b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary integral method; Elastic stress; Semi implicit scheme; Surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849145692     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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