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On the nature of turbulence

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A mechanism for the generation of turbulence and related phenomena in dissipative systems is proposed.

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The research was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for the Advancement of Pure Research (Z.W.O.).

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Ruelle, D., Takens, F. On the nature of turbulence. Commun.Math. Phys. 20, 167–192 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01646553

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