A speculative study of 2/3-order fractional Laplacian modeling of turbulence: Some thoughts and conjectures

Chaos

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Chen, Wen ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 33745725683     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2208452     Document Type: Article

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