Hyperbolic partial differential equations describe phenomena of material
or wave transport in physics, biology and engineering, especially in the
field of fluid mechanics. The mathematical theory of hyperbolic
equations has recently made considerable progress. Accurate and
efficient numerical schemes for computation have been and are being
further developed. This two-volume set of conference proceedings
contains about 100 refereed and carefully selected papers. The books are
intended for researchers and graduate students in mathematics, science
and engineering interested in the most recent results in theory and
practice of hyperbolic problems. Applications touched in these
proceedings concern one-phase and multiphase fluid flow, phase
transitions, shallow water dynamics, elasticity, extended
thermodynamics, electromagnetism, classical and relativistic
magnetohydrodynamics, cosmology. Contributions to the abstract theory of
hyperbolic systems deal with viscous and relaxation approximations,
front tracking and wellposedness, stability of shock profiles and
multi-shock patterns, traveling fronts for transport equations.
Numerically oriented articles study finite difference, finite volume,
and finite element schemes, adaptive, multiresolution, and artificial
dissipation methods.