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Finite Element Methods are used for numerous engineering applications where numerical solutions of partial differential equations are needed. As computers can now deal with the millions of parameters used in these methods, automatic error estimation and automatic adaptation of the utilised method (according to this error estimation), has become a hot research topic.

This text offers comprehensive coverage of this new field of automatic adaptation and error estimation, bringing together the work of eight outstanding researchers in this field who have completed a six year national research project within the German Science Foundation. The result is a state-of-the-art work in true reference style. Each chapter is self-contained and covers theoretical, algorithmic and software presentations as well as solved problems. A main feature consists of several carefully elaborated benchmarks of 2D- and 3D- applications.

First book to go beyond the Finite Element Method in itself Covers material from a new research area Presents benchmarks of 2D- and 3D- applications Fits with the new trend for genetic strategies in engineering

Finite Element Methods are used for numerous engineering applications where numerical solutions of partial differential equations are needed. As computers can now deal with the millions of parameters used in these methods, automatic error estimation and automatic adaptation of the utilised method (according to this error estimation), has become a hot research topic.This text offers comprehensive coverage of this new field of automatic adaptation and error estimation, bringing together the work of eight outstanding researchers in this field who have completed a six year national research project within the German Science Foundation. The result is a state-of-the-art work in true reference style. Each chapter is self-contained and covers theoretical, algorithmic and software presentations as well as solved problems. A main feature consists of several carefully elaborated benchmarks of 2D- and 3D- applications. First book to go beyond the Finite Element Method in itselfCovers material from a new research areaPresents benchmarks of 2D- and 3D- applicationsFits with the new trend for genetic strategies in engineering

The GAMM Committee for "Efficient Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations" organizes workshops on subjects concerning the algorithmical treat- ment of partial differential equations. The topics are discretization methods like the finite element and finite volume method for various types of applications in structural and fluid mechanics. Particular attention is devoted to advanced solu- tion techniques. th The series of such workshops was continued in 1993, January 22-24, with the 9 Kiel-Seminar on the special topic "Adaptive Methods Algorithms, Theory and Applications" at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. The seminar was attended by 76 scientists from 7 countries and 23 lectures were given. The list of topics contained general lectures on adaptivity, special discretization schemes, error estimators, space-time adaptivity, adaptive solvers, multi-grid me- thods, wavelets, and parallelization. Special thanks are due to Michael Heisig, who carefully compiled the contribu- tions to this volume. November 1993 Wolfgang Hackbusch Gabriel Wittum v Contents Page A. AUGE, G. LUBE, D. WEISS: Galerkin/Least-Squares-FEM and Ani- tropic Mesh Refinement. 1 P. BASTIAN, G.WmUM : Adaptive Multigrid Methods: The UG Concept. 17 R. BEINERT, D. KRONER: Finite Volume Methods with Local Mesh Alignment in 2-D. 38 T. BONK: A New Algorithm for Multi-Dimensional Adaptive Nume- cal Quadrature. 54 F. A. BORNEMANN: Adaptive Solution of One-Dimensional Scalar Conservation Laws with Convex Flux. 69 J. CANU, H. RITZDORF : Adaptive, Block-Structured Multigrid on Local Memory Machines. 84 S. DAHLKE, A. KUNaTH: Biorthogonal Wavelets and Multigrid. 99 B. ERDMANN, R. H. W. HOPPE, R.