Mathematics - Key Technology for the Future

I. Motors, Vehicles.- Synthesis of Automotive Cams Using Multiple Shooting-SQP Methods for Constrained Optimization.- Numerical Optimization of Scavenging in Two-Stroke Engines with Transfer Ducts, an Exhaust Port and a Moving Piston.- A Numerical Tool for Flow Simulation in a Wankel Motor.- An Efficient Navier-Stokes Solver for Automotive Aerodynamics.- Numerical Simulation of Exhaust Systems in Car Industry - Efficient Calculation of Radiation Heat Transfer.- Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for Three-Dimensional Arrangement Problems.- Simulation of Test-drives of Automobiles at Driving Limit.- An Optimal Control Approach To Real-Time Vehicle Guidance.- Theoretical and Experimental Studies of an S-Catamaran.- II. Environmental Technology.- Robust Error Estimators for Interface Problems Occuring in Transport Processes in Porous Media.- Modelling and Simulation of a Planned Bio-Chemical in situ Remediation.- Influence of Surfactants on Spreading of Contaminants and Soil Remediation.- Improvement of Environment Observing Remote Sensing Devices by Regularization Techniques.- III. Flow, Transport and Reactions in Technological Processes.- Stability Analysis for Reactors from Chemical Industry.- Heterogeneous Dynamic Process Flowsheet Simulation of Chemical Plants.- Numerical Simulation of Annular Chromatography.- Numerical Methods for Parameter Estimation in Bingham-Fluids.- A Viscoelastic Turbulence Model Based on Renormalization Group Theory.- Modelling and Simulation of Capacitor Impulse Welding.- Analysis of Transport Processes for Layered Porous Materials Used in Industrial Applications.- Modelling and Numerical Simulation of District Heating Networks with Time-Saving Solution Methods.- Sensitivity and Robustness Analysis for Construction and Monitoring ofTubine-Generator Shafts.- IV. Optics and Sensors.- Adaptive Multigrid Methods for the Vectorial Maxwell Eigenvalue Problem for Optical Waveguide Design.- Direct and Inverse Problems for Diffractive Structures - Optimization of Binary Gratings.- Computation of Electromagnetic Fields for a Humidity Sensor.- V. Crystal Growth, Semiconductors.- Simulation of Industrial Crystal Growth by the Vertical Bridgman Method.- Numerical Simulation and Control of Industrial Crystal Growth Processes.- Optimal Control of Sublimation Growth of SiC Crystals.- Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Detectors.- Optimal Design of High Power Electronic Devices by Topology Optimization.- Modelling and Simulation of Strained Quantum Wells in Semiconductor Lasers.- VI. Electronic Circuits.- Efficient Analysis of Oscillatory Circuits.- Modelling and Simulation of Power Devices for High-Voltage Integrated Circuits.- Finding Beneficial DAE Structures in Circuit Simulation.- CHORAL - a Charge-Oriented Algorithm for the Numerical Integration of Electrical Circuits.- VII. Tomography, Image Analysis and Visualisation.- Reconstructing Crystalline Structures from Few Images Under High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy.- Measurement of Paint Layer Thickness with Photothermal Infrared Radiometry.- Spatio-Temporal Current Density Reconstruction from EEG-/MEG-Data.- Signal Correction in NMR Spectroscopy.- On Scattering of Ultrasonic Waves.- Smoothing of Tomographic Data and Hybrid Volume-Surface Visualisation.- Video Coding with Adaptive Vector Quantization and Rate Distortion Optimization.- VIII. Statistical Methods in Medical Applications.- The Application of Statistical Methods of Meta-Analysis for Heterogeneity Modelling in Medicine and Pharmacy, Psychology,Quality Control and Assurance.- An Application for the Analysis of Human Tremor Time-Series.- IX. Optimization in Design and Production.- Free Material Optimization.- Automatic Layout and Labelling of State Diagrams.- Optimization Problems in a Semi-Automatic Device for Cutting Leather.- Stochastic Programming for Power Production and Trading Under Uncertainty.- Scheduling Scarce Resources in Chemical Engineering.- X. Optimization in Traffic and Communication.- Duty Scheduling in Public Transit.- Rotation Planning for the Continental Service of a European Airline.- Computer Aided Scheduling of Switching Engines.- Train Schedule Optimization in Public Rail Transport.- An Integrated Planning Approach for Cellular Radio Networks.- Author Index.