A Numerical Analysis on Instability of Stratified Shear Flow
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Japan
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1884-2070,0514-8499
DOI: 10.2534/jjasnaoe1968.1998.19