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Pablo Dmitruk1, W H Matthaeus

  • 1Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Deleware 19716, USA.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|October 13, 2007
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