Equations of state for simple liquids from the gaussian equivalent representation method

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 765-773

  Bolmatov, Dima ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Macromolecular and polymer solutions; Polymer melts; Self consistent field methods; Swelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549099966     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-009-9874-2     Document Type: Article

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