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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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MathSciNet review: 1567465
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Book Information:

Authors: Roger Peyret and Thomas D. Taylor
Title: Computational methods for fluid flow
Additional book information: Springer Series in Computational Physics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1983, x + 358 pp., $42.50. ISBN 0-3871-1147-6.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Alexandre Joel Chorin
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 368-372
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15213-8