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- A Lagrangian or material region is a fixed chunk of fluid.
- This is the sort of regions the usual laws of physics and
thermodynamics hold for.
Lagrangian coordinates are not used that much in fluid mechanics. One
exception: Dr. Van Dommelen's Ph.D. thesis.
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