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Self-affine fronts in self-affine fractures: large and small-scale structure

G Drazer1, H Auradou, J Koplik

  • 1Department of Physics, City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|February 3, 2004
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