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M Benyamine1, M Djermane1, B Dalloz-Dubrujeaud2

  • 1Laboratoire FIMAS, Université de Béchar, Boîte Postale 417, Béchar 08000, Algeria.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|October 15, 2014
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