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Radiative Gas Dynamics by David Weinberg

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Radiative Gas Dynamics
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Publisher: Ohio State University

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This course is a graduate-level introduction to gas dynamical processes in astrophysics. Its goal is to teach you the basic concepts and equations of gas dynamics (a.k.a. fluid dynamics or hydrodynamics) and to illustrate the application of gas dynamics to astrophysics.

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