Modern Methods in Scientific Computing and Applications: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute and Seminaire De Math Eacute Matiques Superieures on Modern Methods in Scientific Computing and Applications, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9-20 July 2001

The influence of scientific computing has become very wide over the last few decades: almost every area of science and engineering is greatly influenced by simulations - image processing, thin films, mathematical finance, electrical engineering, moving interfaces and combustion, to name but a few. One half of this book focuses on the techniques of scientific computing: domain decomposition, the absorption of boundary conditions and one-way operators, convergence analysis of multi-grid methods and other multi-grid techniques, dynamical systems, and matrix analysis. The remainder of the book is concerned with combining techniques with concrete applications: stochastic differential equations, image processing, thin films, and asymptotic analysis for combustion problems.