Subcritical dynamos in shear flows
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1 Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France 2 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom 3 Laboratoire d’hydrodynamique (LadHyX), CNRS – École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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تاریخ انتشار 2008