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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 802420, 15 pages
Multiscale Numerical Study of 3D Polymer Crystallization during Cooling Stage
Department of Computational Mathematics, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China
Received 18 May 2012; Accepted 23 July 2012
Academic Editor: Hung Nguyen-Xuan
Copyright © 2012 Chunlei Ruan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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