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This section provides a short introduction for waves in fluids and the corresponding contributions in the book.

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Soomere, T. (2009). Overview. In: Quak, E., Soomere, T. (eds) Applied Wave Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00585-5_11

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