Approximation of potential-driven flow dynamics in large-scale self-similar tree networks

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 467, Issue 2134, 2011, Pages 2810-2824

  Mayes, Jason ^a   Sen, Mihir ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching; Dynamics; Flow; Network; Self similar; Tree

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PLANT EXTRACTS;

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; BRANCHING; DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; FLOW; FLOW DYNAMICS; LARGE SYSTEM; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; SELF-SIMILAR; TREE; TREE NETWORK;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 80053921164     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0113     Document Type: Article

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