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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Indeterminism in Classical Dynamics of Particle Motion

Gregory L. Eyink, Ethan T. Vishniac, Cristian C. Lalescu, Hussein Aluie, Kalin Kanov, Randal C. Burns, Charles Meneveau, Alexander S. Szalay

Published Mar 21, 2013• 0 citations
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