On the stabilizing effect of convection in three-dimensional incompressible flows

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 501-564

  Hou, Thomas Y ^a   Lei, Zhen ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 68049124905     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20254     Document Type: Article

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