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Guoqiang Liu1,2, Wenzhe Zhang3, Liang Zhang4

  • 1School of Mechanical Engineering, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji 721016, China.

Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|August 7, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
erosion prediction modelhorizontal pipe erosionliquid–solid suspension flow

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