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Continuous phenomena, such as wave propagation or fluid flow, are generally modeled with partial differential equations (PDE), which express relationships between rates of change with respect to multiple independent variables.
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Borthwick, D. (2016). Introduction. In: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48936-0_1
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