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Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK

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Nikiforakis, N. (2005). AMR for global atmospheric modelling. In: Plewa, T., Linde, T., Gregory Weirs, V. (eds) Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27039-6_38

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