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Numerical solutions of single-mode convection equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2006

Juri Toomre
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and Department of Astro-Geophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder
D. O. Gough
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
E. A. Spiegel
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Columbia University, New York 10027

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© 1977 Cambridge University Press

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