The leaf venation as formed in a tensorial field

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-138

  Couder, Y ^a   Pauchard, L ^b   Allain, C ^b   Adda Bedia, M ^a   Douady, S ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

05.45.Df Fractals; 62.20.Mk Fatigue, brittleness, fracture, and cracks; 87.18.La Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041806457     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2002-00211-1     Document Type: Article

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