For this volume, experts in a wide range of fields in numerical analysis provide clear and concise reviews of current work, accessible to non-specialists. Topics include linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, approximation, and optimization, as well as important new applications in numerical tomography and image processing. First presented in 1996 at the State of the Art in Numerical Analysis conference, the papers reflect the rapid progress since the previous conference in 1986.

This volume collects numerous recent advances in the study of stratified fluids. It includes analytical and experimental work from a wide range of fields, including meteorology, limnology, oceanography, and the study of estuarine processes. It also includes fundamental research on stratified and rotating fluid dynamics. A compendium of current work, the book is an ideal starting point for future research.

This collection provides a comprehensive look at current work on heat transfer, and topics include heat exchangers, phase-change problems, flow, porous media, extended surfaces, general mathematical techniques, rheology, inverse problems, and specific industrial heat transfer processes. The contributions come from fifteen countries around the world and include work by mathematicians, engineers, experimentalists, and industrialists.

In the last thirty years, combinatorial mathematics has found itself at the heart of many technological applications. The aims of the conference on which this book is based were to stimulate combinatorial mathematicians to pursue new lines of research of potential and practical importance, and to uncover the breadth of applications to the subject. Topics covered include neural networks, cryptography, radio frequency assignment for mobile telecommunications, coding theory, sequences for communications applications, interconnection networks, data types, knot theory, radar, parallel processing,...