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The Conception, Gestation, Birth, and Infancy of FCT

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Flux-Corrected Transport

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How Flux-Corrected Transport came to be, as recalled by one of the innovators: recollections of how FCT was developed and of the individuals responsible.

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  1. D. L. Book, J. P. Boris, B. E. McDonald, and C. E. Wagner, SHASTA, a transport algorithm that works, Proc. Symposium on High-Altitude Nuclear Effects, Stanford, CA, August 10–12, 1971.

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  2. D. L. Book and J. P. Boris, A transport algorithm that works, NRL Reports of Progress, Nov. 1971, p.1.

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  3. J. P. Boris and D. L. Book, Flux-Corrected Transport: I. SHASTA, a fluid transport algorithm that works, J. Comput. Phys. 11, 38–69 (1973) [FCT-1].

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  6. J. P. Boris and D. L. Book, Solution of Continuity Equations by the Method of Flux-Corrected Transport, in: B. Alder, S. Fernbach, M. Rotenberg, and J. Killeen (Eds.), Methods in Computational Physics, vol. 16 (Academic Press, New York, 1976).

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  1. Physics Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 93943, USA

    David L. Book

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Dortmund, LS III, Vogelpothsweg 87, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Dmitri Kuzmin  & Stefan Turek  & 

  2. School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Chain Bridge Road, 103 4260, Fairfax, Virginia, 22030-4444, USA

    Rainald Löhner

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Book, D.L. (2005). The Conception, Gestation, Birth, and Infancy of FCT. In: Kuzmin, D., Löhner, R., Turek, S. (eds) Flux-Corrected Transport. Scientific Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27206-2_1

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