Table of Contents

I. Fluid Dynamics.- Boltzmann Equation and Rarefied Gas Dynamics.- Nonlinear Stability of Fluid Motions: The Lyapunov Direct Method and its Applications to Natural Convection in a Mixture.- Numerical Analysis of Nonstationary Fluid Flow.- Iteration by Subdomains in Numerical Fluid Dynamics.- The Extended Lifting Line Theory for Systems of Sails.- Scattering Kernel Formulation of Nonlinear Extended Kinetic Theory.- A Horizontally Twodimensional Climate Model.- On the Coupling of Hyperbolic and Parabolic Systems: Analytical and Numerical Approach.- New Contributions to Nonlinear Stability of the Magnetic Benard Problem.- A Criticality Concept for Reaction-Diffusion Systems far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium.- On the Approximation of Continuum Stochastic Systems by a Discrete Stochastic System: A Problem with Moving Boundary.- Numerical Computation of Rarefied Gas Flows.- On the Non-Linear Stability of Parallel Shear Flows.- A Rigorous Onsager-Machlup Formulation of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics.- Constitutive Equations for Masonry-Like Materials.- AMICS: A Multifunctional Assistent for State Accounting Queries.- II. System and Control.- Towards a Theory of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems.- Stochastic Aggregation.- Inverse Problems in Medicine.- Dynamical System Identification from Noisy Data.- Linearization Based on Eigenvalue Estimates.- An Adaptive Linear Approach to Nonlinear Filtering.- Stochastic Filtering in a Reliability Frame.- Numerical Solution of Asymptotic Two-Point Boundary Value Problems with Application to the Swirling Flow over a Plane Disk.- On Equilibrium Points of the Variational Adaptive Control Scheme.