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In his Comment to an earlier paper [Phys. Rev. E 67, 051906 (2003)]] Lam points out an error in Eq. (20) of the original paper. Here we show that use of the corrected expression produces results very similar to those presented in our original paper, so our qualitative conclusions are unchanged.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
دوره 70 1 Pt 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004