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G. B. Whitham

Publication date: 1974



76L05: Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to fluid mechanics

76Q05: Hydro- and aero-acoustics

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

76J20: Supersonic flows

35-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to partial differential equations

74-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids

35-XX: Partial differential equations

74Jxx: Waves in solid mechanics


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