Finger rafting: A generic instability of floating elastic sheets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Vella, Dominic ^a   Wettlaufer, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; ICE PROBLEMS; TECTONICS;

ELASTIC SHEETS; FINGER RAFTING; INTERLOCKING FINGERS; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 33847268267     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.088303     Document Type: Article

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