Stationary statistical properties of Rayleigh-Bénard convection at large Prandtl number

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 789-815

  Wang, Xiaoming ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 52349104258     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20214     Document Type: Article

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