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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
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A novel local thermal non-equilibrium model for biological tissue applied to multiple-antennas configurations for thermal ablation

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Pages 111-121 | Received 27 Aug 2020, Accepted 07 Oct 2020, Published online: 23 Oct 2020

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