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10 - Case Study: Taylor–Sedov Blast Wave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

Graham W. Griffiths
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City University London
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Numerical Analysis Using R
Solutions to ODEs and PDEs
, pp. 508 - 538
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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