Erratum: Addition to "Revised Formulation of Fick's, Fourier's, and Newton's Laws for Spatially Varying Linear Transport Coefficients".
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SUBMITTER: Won YY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774247 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
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Erratum: Addition to "Revised Formulation of Fick's, Fourier's, and Newton's Laws for Spatially Varying Linear Transport Coefficients".
Won You-Yeon YY Ramkrishna Doraiswami D
ACS omega 20201215 51
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b00736.]. ...[more]
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