In Douglas Adams' book 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', hyper-intelligent beings reached a point in their existence where they wanted to understand the purpose of their own existence and the universe. They built a supercomputer, called Deep Thought, and upon completion, they asked it for the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything else. The computer worked for several millennia on the answers to all these questions. When the day arrived for hyper-intelligent beings the to receive the answer, they were stunned, shocked and disappointed to hear that the answer was simply 42. The still open questions to scientists and engineers are typically much sim­ pler and consequently the answers are more reasonable. Furthermore, because human beings are too impatient and not ready to wait for such a long pe­ riod, high-performance computing techniques have been developed, leading to much faster answers. Based on these developments in the last two decades, scientific and engineering computing has evolved to a key technology which plays an important role in determining, or at least shaping, future research and development activities in many branches of industry. Development work has been going on all over the world resulting in numerical methods that are now available for simulations that were not foreseeable some years ago. However, these days the availability of supercomputers with Teraflop perfor­ mance supports extensive computations with technical relevance. A new age of engineering has started.

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I. Fluid Flow.- Large-Scale Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations Using Parallel Computers.- MEGAFLOW - An Industrial Flow Simulation Tool for Aircraft Applications 21.- Development of a Parallel FVM Based Groundwater.- Flow Model.- Adaptive Hybrid Mixed Finite Element Discretization of Instationary Variably Saturated Flow in Porous Media 37.- Simulation of High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Columns with CFD 45.- CFD Calculations of Flow, Dispersion and Chemical Reactions in Fixed Bed Tubular Reactors Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method 53.- Computational Engineering for Wind-Exposed Thin-Walled Structures 63.- Numerical Simulation of Wind Loads on Antenna Structures 71.- Numerical Calculation of Turbulent Premixed Flames with an Efficient Turbulent Flame Speed Closure Model 81.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Radiative Heat Transfer with.- Parallel Computer Architectures 89.- Direct Numerical Simulation of Bubble Swarms with.- a Parallel Front-Tracking Method.- Symmetry-Preserving Discretization of Turbulent Channel.- Flow 107.- Parallelization Strategies and Efficency of CFD Computations in Complex Geometries Using Lattice Boltzmann Methods on High-Performance Computers 115.- Applications of the Lattice Boltzmann Method to Complex and Turbulent Flows 123.- Computation of Flows Around Space Configurations.- Flow Visualization on Hierarchical Cartesian Grids.- II. Mathematical Methods.- The Finite Mass Method - A New Approach to the Solution of Flow Problems 149.- An Octree-Based Approach for Fast Elliptic Solvers.- A Variable Order Method of Lines: Accuracy, Conservation and Applications 167.- A Hybrid Direct/Iterative Algorithm for the Solution of Poisson's Equation Based on the Schur Complement Method 175.- III. Crystal Growth and Materials.- High-Performance Computing, Multi-Scale Models for Crystal Growth Systems.- Semi-Direct Numerical Simulation of a Czochralski Melt Flow on High-Performance Computers.- High-Order Numerical Solutions for Rotating Flows with Walls.- Parallel Coupled Simulation of Casting Processes on Cluster of PCs 221.- Controlling Point Defects in Single Silicon Crystals Grown by the Czochralski Method 229.- A Two-Scale Method for Liquid-Solid Phase Transitions with Dendritic Microstructure 237.- Application of Higher Order BDF Discretization of the Boussinesq Equation and the Heat Transport Equation.- Spectral and Finite Volume Numerical Approximations for Solutal Convection in Melted Alloys 253.- Numerical Simulation of Physical Vapour Transport Crystal Growth Processes by a Finite Volume Solution Algorithm 261.- 3D Block-Structured Grid Algorithms for the Numerical Simulation of Chemical Vapor Deposition in Horizontal Reactors.- Control of Electron Beam Evaporation: Numerical Simulation.- IV. Dynamic Systems and Optimal Control.- Solution of a Hard Flight Path Optimization Problem by Different Optimization Codes 289.- Adaptive Data Structures and Algorithms for Efficient Visualization and Data Management at Runtime of Terrain and Feature Data 297.- Recent Improvements in the Trajectory Optimization Software ASTOS.- Optimal Design of the Power Train of Vehicles: Modelling, Simulation and Optimization.- Unsteady Heat Load Simulation for Hypersonic Cruise Optimization 325.- Modeling Techniques and Parameter Estimation for the Simulation of Complex Vehicle Structures.- V. Optimization of Electronic Circuits.- Numerical Techniques for Different Time Scales in Electric Circuit Simulation 343.- Transient Noise Analysis in Circuit Simulation.- Realistic Step Flow Model for Orientation-Dependent Wet Etching 369.- Modeling of Ion-Induced Charge Generation in High Voltage Diodes 377.- Modelling and Simulation of the Transient Electromagnetic Behavior of High Power Bus Bars 385.- Modeling and Simulation of Electrothermomechanical.- Coupling Phenomena in High Power Electronics.- Heat Conduction as Eigenvalue Problem.