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Asymmetry and bifurcations in three-dimensional sudden-contraction channel flows

T P Chiang1, Amalendu Sau, Robert R Hwang

  • 1Department of Engineering Sciences and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|May 24, 2011
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