Patchiness: A new diagnostic for Lagrangian trajectory analysis in time-dependent fluid flows

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1053-1093

  Malhotra, Naresh ^a   Mezić, Igor ^b   Wiggins, Stephen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

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EID: 0032091264     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127498000875     Document Type: Article

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