Successive elimination of shear layers by a hierarchy of constraints in inviscid spherical-shell flows

Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Livermore, Philip W ^a   Hollerbach, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84864771278     PISSN: 00222488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4736990     Document Type: Article

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