Soap film flows: Statistics of two-dimensional turbulence

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2167-2177

  Vorobieff, P ^a   Rivera, M ^a,b   Ecke, R E ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 0000194031     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870078     Document Type: Article

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