Small-scale structure of nonlinearly interacting species advected by chaotic flows

Chaos

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 470-480

  Hernández García, Emilio ^a   López, Cristóbal ^b   Neufeld, Zoltán ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0036592282     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1468248     Document Type: Article

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