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This textbook provides a thorough presentation of the phenomena related to the transport of mass (with and without electric charge), momentum and energy.
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This book is about singular limits of systems of partial differential equations governing the motion of thermally conducting compressible viscous fluids.
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For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output.
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