Non-Gaussian invariant measures for the majda model of decaying turbulent transport

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1146-1167

  Eijnden, Eric Vanden ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035618378     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3001     Document Type: Article

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