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I'm also quite surprised that this article tries to spin it as very novel. We've known this for literally a hundred years. Moreover, there's no mention of the p
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
I'm also quite surprised that this article tries to spin it as very novel. We've known this for literally a hundred years. Moreover, there's no mention of the pioneers in the field - Chapman, Engskog, Burnett, Knudsen, etc - much to my dismay.
The recommendation is for major revisions including a detailed literature review.
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- tanderson92 11y agoI was also dismayed when they referred to KdV (Korteweg de Vries) theory as a "relatively unheralded" theory. KdV theory is an incredibly well known and thoroughly studied area of Mathematics.
- vanderZwan 11y agoWell, those two statements aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, because it can still be relatively unheralded. But only because every physicist knows of Navier-Stokes.