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Souganidis, P.E. (1997). Front propagation: Theory and applications. In: Dolcetta, I.C., Lions, P.L. (eds) Viscosity Solutions and Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0094298

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