The classic flow solution—the so-called Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave solution—was independently devised by John von Neumann and British mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor during World War II. After the war, the similarity solution was published by three other authors— L. I. Sedov, R. Latter, and J. Lockwood-Taylor —who had discovered it independently. Since the early theoretical work, both theoretical and experimental studies of blast waves have been ongoing.