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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Silver Street, Cambridge, England

    Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

  2. Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Surrey

    Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

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Longuet-Higgins, M.S. (1981). Polygon transformations in fluid mechanics. In: Reynolds, W.C., MacCormack, R.W. (eds) Seventh International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-10694-4_2

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