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IN this latest instalment* of Dr. R. V. Southwell's application of his relaxation method for the, solution of the differential equations of physics, the problems treated are of a kind which are particularly intractable by classical methods—problems relating to the flow of a fluid having one or more free surfaces in a gravitational field. In addition to their practical interest, the results obtained present in an acute form the fundamental question of the extent to which the numerical approach can disprove the possibility of a particular type of solution.
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CHRISTOPHERSON, D. Relaxation Methods Applied to Engineering Problems. Nature 159, 345 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159345a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159345a0