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Spectral methods have been far less common for compressible flow calculations than for incompressible ones. A principal reason is that few compressible flows possess the high degree of regularity in the primitive variables that is ideal for spectral approximations. Incompressible flows possess singularities primarily for geometric reasons, such as sharp edges or corners. Compressible flows, however, are also subject to singularities arising from non-linear wave propagation.
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Canuto, C., Hussaini, M.Y., Quarteroni, A., Zang, T.A. (1988). Compressible Flow. In: Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics. Springer Series in Computational Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84108-8_8
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