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Stress in a dilute suspension of spheres in a dilute polymer solution subject to simple shear flow at finite Deborah numbers
- Award ID(s):
- 1435013
- PAR ID:
- 10016336
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Physical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Fluids
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2469-990X
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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