Hamiltonian Structure and Statistically Relevant Conserved Quantities for the Truncated Burgers-Hopf Equation

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-46

  Abramov, Rafail V ^a,b   Kovačič, Gregor ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 2442599290     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3032     Document Type: Article

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