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Engineers need to precisely predict how instant and strong pressure changes initiate and dissipate to prevent damage during rocket launches, for example. A team from YOKOHAMA National University has detailed how computational models represent a type of shock wave differently than theoretical or physical predictions do. This new understanding could help improve predictions, the researchers said.

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