Modeling and Analysis of Material Flows in Re-Entrant Supply Chain Networks Using Modified Partial Differential Equations

The basic partial differential equation (PDE) models for supply chain networks with re-entrant nodes and their macroscopic are proposed. However, through numerical examples, the basic continuum models do not perform well for multiple re-entrant systems. Then, a new state equation considering the re-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fenglan He, Ming Dong, Xiaofeng Shao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/325690