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We have also compared the simulation results using a MUSCL scheme and a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) scheme with a specialized nonuniform grid suited to the pellet problem in one space dimension, and developed a localized Discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the pellet ablation problem. 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