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Shen, Y., Xu, Y. (2021). Aquaculture Structures: Numerical Methods. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_333-1

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