Dynamo experiments

Fluid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 80, Issue , 2007, Pages 37-54

  Gailitis, Agris ^a   Lielausis, Olgerts ^a   Gerbeth, Gunter ^b   Stefani, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 84859971578     PISSN: 09265112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4833-3_3     Document Type: Article

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