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The field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the subset of computational science concerned with the solution of the equations governing fluid flow. Although its birth date cannot be pinpointed precisely, it can be said to have begun in earnest in the 1960s.

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Pulliam, T.H., Zingg, D.W. (2014). Introduction. In: Fundamental Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Scientific Computation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05053-9_1

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