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Zhaoxia Meng1, Meng Liu2, Hongen Jia2

  • 1Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Shanxi Energy Institute, Taiyuan 030024, China.

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 23, 2022
PubMed

Keywords:
decoupled numerical schemefinite elementsnematic liquid crystalnonincremental pressure-correction projection method

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