Resources that describe schemes for nondimensionalization of ODEs and PDEs?

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I am able to find plenty of notes that give examples of how a few particular examples may be non-dimensionalized, but I am wondering if there is something more general worth studying?

A benefit of a more general approach, rather than an example based approach would be that one could possibly develop a scheme which may be used to non-dimensionalize any problem.

Also, it might be easier to learn, since perhaps one could grasp the pattern from the general case easier than a bunch of specific problems they have no interest in.

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The general method of non-dimensionalization is given by the Buckingham Pi Theorem.

I learned it from Introduction to Symmetry Analysis, but amazingly enough there is an entire book on the subject.