Proceedings of the Third German-Italian Symposium Applications of Mathematics in Industry and Technology: June 18–22, 1988 Siena (Under the auspices of the C.N.R. — D.F.G. agreement)

Front Matter....Pages N2-7
Boltzmann Equation and Rarefied Gas Dynamics....Pages 9-21
Nonlinear Stability of Fluid Motions: The Lyapunov Direct Method and Its Applications to Natural Convection in a Mixture....Pages 22-33
Numerical Analysis of Nonstationary Fluid Flow....Pages 34-53
Iteration by Subdomains in Numerical Fluid Dynamics....Pages 54-76
The Extended Lifting Line Theory for Systems of Sails....Pages 77-96
Scattering kernel formulation of nonlinear extended kinetic theory....Pages 97-112
A Horizontally Twodimensional Climate Model....Pages 113-122
On the Coupling of Hyperbolic and Parabolic Systems: Analitical and Numerical Approach....Pages 123-165
New Contributions to Nonlinear Stability of the Magnetic Benard Problem....Pages 166-178
A Criticality Concept for Reaction-Diffusion Systems far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium....Pages 179-188
On the Approximation of Continuum Stochastic Systems by a Discrete Stochastic System: A Problem with Moving Boundary....Pages 189-198
Numerical Computation of Rarefied Gas Flows....Pages 199-208
On the Non-Linear Stability of Parallel Shear Flows....Pages 209-218
A rigorous Onsager-Machlup formulation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics....Pages 219-228
Constitutive Equations for Masonry-Like Materials....Pages 229-238
Amics:A Multifunctional Assistent for State Accounting Queries....Pages 239-247
Towards a Theory of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems....Pages 248-258
Stochastic Aggregation....Pages 259-276
Inverse Problems in Medicine....Pages 277-287
Dynamical System Identification from Noisy Data....Pages 288-298
Linearization Based on Eigenvalue Estimates....Pages 299-307
An Adaptive Linear Approach to Nonlinear Filtering....Pages 308-316
Stochastic Filtering in a Reliability Frame....Pages 317-326
Numerical Solution of Asymptotic Two-Point Boundary Value Problems with Application to the Swirling Flow over a Plane Disk....Pages 327-338
On Equilibrium Points of the Variational Adaptive Control Scheme....Pages 339-349
Back Matter....Pages 350-353