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In this chapter we introduce the ideas of invariance concretely through a thorough treatment of dimensional analysis. We show how dimensional analysis is connected to modelling and the construction of solutions obtained through invariance for boundary value problems for partial differential equations.
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Bluman, G.W., Kumei, S. (1989). Dimensional Analysis, Modelling, and Invariance. In: Symmetries and Differential Equations. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 81. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4307-4_2
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