On the weakly nonlinear development of the elliptic instability

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3374-3379

  Lebovitz, Norman R ^a   Saldanha, Kenneth I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0011647026     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870196     Document Type: Article

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