Aeolian and subaqueous bedforms in shear flows
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1364-503X,1471-2962
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0364