Asymmetric salt fingers induced by a nonlinear equation of state

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1882-1890

  Ozgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Esenkov, Oleg E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 0005958142     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869705     Document Type: Article

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