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The author describes and teaches the art of discovering scaling laws, starting from dimensional analysis and physical similarity. He demonstrates the concepts of intermediate asymptotics and the renormalisation group as natural consequences of self-similarity and shows how and when these notions and tools can be applied, and when they cannot.Barenblatt, Grigori is the author of 'Scaling' with ISBN 9780521533942 and ISBN 0521533945.
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