This volume contains results gained from the EU-funded 4th Framework project, UNSI (Unsteady Viscous Flows in the Context of Fluid-Structure Interaction). Fifteen European organizations (industrial firms, research labs, and universities) have collaborated on the topic of non-linear, static and dynamic aeroelasticity applications with some special emphasis on the improvement of CFD methods applied to unsteady flow. Hence, the book is split into five main parts: project descriptions (with points of contact for the interested reader), summaries of work performed by each partner, summaries of...

The authors describe the electric, magnetic and other relaxational processes in a wide spectrum of materials: liquid crystals, molecular magnets, polymers, high-Tc superconductors and glasses. The book summarizes the phenomenological fundamentals and the experimental methods used. A detailed description of molecular and collective dynamics in the broad range of liquid crystals is presented. Magnetic systems, high-Tc superconductors, polymers and glasses are an important subject of matter. It is shown that the researchers working on relaxation processes in different fields of materials...

The present volume entitled "Recent Contributions to Fluid Mechanics" is dedicated to Professor Dr.-Ing. Alfred Walz in honour of his 75th birthday. Alfred Walz, born on 11 May 1907, began his outstanding career as an electrical engineer. A few years after obtaining his university degree he became extremely engaged in fluid dynamics. Walking in the footsteps of Prandtl he was able to direct the development of theoretical activities in an inimitable way. He had the great opportunity to work both as an engaged fluid dynamicist -always trying to get to the bottom of things -and as a popular and...