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Basic Elements of Unstructured Shock-Fitting: Results Achieved and Future Developments

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Ten years have passed since the authors started developing a shock-fitting technique for unstructured grids. It is now time to make a first assessment of the state-of-the-art of the technique, highlighting its achievements, the yet un-solved issues and to outline its future developments.

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    A different approach for dealing with the shock-downstream boundary is described in [12, 25].

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Paciorri, R., Bonfiglioli, A. (2017). Basic Elements of Unstructured Shock-Fitting: Results Achieved and Future Developments. In: Onofri, M., Paciorri, R. (eds) Shock Fitting. Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68427-7_3

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