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Book Information:

Author: Alexandre Chorin
Title: Vorticity and turbulence
Additional book information: Appl. Math. Sci. Ser., vol. 103, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1994, viii + 174 pp., ISBN 0-387-94197-5, $35.00$

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Majda, A. and Bertozzi, A., Vorticity and the Mathematical Theory of Incompressible Flow (Lecture notes and book in preparation).
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Majda, A., Vorticity, turbulence, and acoustics in fluid flow, SIAM Review 33 (1991), 349-388, MR 92i:76001.
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Review Information:

Reviewer: Andrew J. Majda
Affiliation: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 71-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00632-5
Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society