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A boundary element model of the transport of a semi-infinite bubble through a microvessel bifurcation

Andres J Calderon, Brijesh Eshpuniyani, J Brian Fowlkes

    Physics of Fluids (Woodbury, N.Y. : 1994)
    |July 28, 2010
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