Competition and bistability of ordered undulations and undulation chaos in inclined layer convection
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Karen E. Daniels, Oliver Brausch, Werner Pesch, Eberhard Bodenschatz Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany, Current address: Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, Current address: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
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