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Finite element method for optimizing pipe bends

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Translated from Khimicheskoe i Neftyanoe Mashinostroenie, No. 11, pp. 13–14, November, 1992.

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Bogomol'nyi, V.M. Finite element method for optimizing pipe bends. Chem Petrol Eng 28, 659–661 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01150921

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