Validity of the essential assumption in a projection operator method.

Makoto Okamura1

  • 1Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga 816-8580, Japan. okamura@rian.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Summary

The Mori projection operator method

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