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Aerodynamics: The Outlook for the Future

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In previous chapters, we have seen how the foundations of the aerodynamics were established and the developments.

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Gülçat, Ü. (2021). Aerodynamics: The Outlook for the Future. In: Fundamentals of Modern Unsteady Aerodynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60777-7_10

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