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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals
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The Physical Influence Scheme applied to staggered unstructured grids for solving fluid flow problems

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Pages 197-220 | Received 18 May 2020, Accepted 19 Jun 2020, Published online: 15 Jul 2020

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