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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 732176, 24 pages
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Review Article

Analytical Rheology of Polymer Melts: State of the Art

Sachin Shanbhag

Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA

Received 25 July 2012; Accepted 26 August 2012

Academic Editors: Y. Nakayama and A. O. Neto

Copyright © 2012 Sachin Shanbhag. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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