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Intermittent turbulence and fractal dimension: Kurtosis and the spectral exponent 5/3+B

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    Benoit Mandelbrot

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Mandelbrot, B. (1976). Intermittent turbulence and fractal dimension: Kurtosis and the spectral exponent 5/3+B. In: Temam, R. (eds) Turbulence and Navier Stokes Equations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0091452

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