Intermittency and regularity issues in 3D navier-stokes turbulence

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-150

  Gibbon, J D ^a   Doering, Charles R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 20644447346     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-005-0382-5     Document Type: Article

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