Lagrangian dynamics in high-dimensional point-vortex systems

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1929-1941

  Weiss, Jeffrey B ^a   Provenzale, Antonello ^a,c   McWilliams, James C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 0001245649     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869709     Document Type: Article

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