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The most fundamental treatment of gas dynamics is given in the classical texts:

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Inviscid compressible flow problems are treated in view of Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) by

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Yamaguchi, H. (2008). Compressible Flow. In: Engineering Fluid Mechanics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 85. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6742-6_5

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