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Jose M Lopez1, Juan M Lopez2, Francisco Marques1

  • 1Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|March 12, 2023
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Keywords:
bifurcationsexperimentsfluid dynamicsnumerical methods

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