Logically Rectangular Grids and Finite Volume Methods for PDEs in Circular and Spherical Domains
by Donna A. Calhoun, Christiane Helzel, and Randall J. LeVeque, Submitted, 2006.

Figure 8.5: Shallow water equations with a dam break in a starlike domain.

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