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Franco Ferrari1, Jarosław Paturej, Thomas A Vilgis

  • 1Institute of Physics and CASA, University of Szczecin, ul Wielkopolska 15, Szczecin, Poland. ferrari@univ.szczecin.pl

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|March 21, 2008
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