Fiber spinning and film blowing instabilities

Polymer Processing Instabilities: Control and Understanding

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 321-387

  Wook Jung, Hyun ^a   Hyun, Jae Chun ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

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