Statistical Foundations of Liquid-Crystal Theory II: Macroscopic Balance Laws
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عنوان ژورنال: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-9527,1432-0673
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-012-0551-2