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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 609701, 15 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/609701
Research Article

Thermodynamics/Dynamics Coupling in Weakly Compressible Turbulent Stratified Fluids

Rémi Tailleux

Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, P.O. Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, UK

Received 6 December 2011; Accepted 22 January 2012

Academic Editors: E. Curotto and N. Marmier

Copyright © 2012 Rémi Tailleux. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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