Mathematics in industrial problems. Part 6 (Q1313405)

[Part V (1992) has been reviewed in Zbl 0758.00004.] Here is the 6th volume issued under the direction of Avner Friedman at IMA. Each time I have to review a volume of this series, I am sure to find very interesting subjects. To discuss the content of this book, it is useful to list the titles of the chapters: Preface; (1) Magnetization reversal in particulate recording media; (2) Variable forgetting factors in Kalman filtering; (3) Modeling of dopant diffusion networks; (4) Statistical optics and effective medium theories of color; (5) Amorphous and polysilicon devices; (6) Modeling the performance of a piezoelectric gyroscope; (7) Particle simulation of xerografic development; (8) A statistic dynamic theory of glassy polymers; (9) Simulation of magnetic recording and playback processes; (10) Sunglitter in ocean remote detection; (11) Computer simulation of electro-rheological fluids; (12) Local flows in permeation reducing barrier layers; (13) Iterative solution methods on the Cray YMP/C90; (14) Track reconstruction and data fusion; (15) Approximation to the Boltzmann transport in semiconductor devices; (16) Systematic data fusion using the theory of random conditional sets; (17) Micromagnetic simulation; (18) Dissolution kinetics with feedback; (19) Wetting and absorption at chemically heterogeneous surfaces; (20) Fluid and kinetic modeling for micromechanical structures; (21) Modeling exhaust-gas oxygen sensors; (22) 3D modeling of smart power devices; (23) Solutions to proposed problems. The particularity of the presented subjects lies in the fact that they stem from the need to explain physical phenomena or to create an adequate model to them. We tried to classify the developed subjects into some groups; a) Modeling and simulating micromagnetic media (chapters 1, 9, 17); b) Semiconductor device modeling (chapters 3, 5, 22); c) Gas and fluid flows (Chapters 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21); d) Statistical physics methods (chapters 4, 7, 8); e) Computer experiments (chapters 13, 15). It is worth pointing out that most of these problems arose in famous companies like Xerox, Kodak and so on. For the applied mathematician it is of interest to remark that at the end of each chapter there are given open problems awaiting solutions.