Modeling, mesh generation, and adaptive numerical methods for partial differential equations. Based on the proceedings of the 1993 IMA summer program held at IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA (Q1897256)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Barnhill, Robert E.; Farin, Gerald; Hamann, Bernd}, NURBS and grid generation, 1-21 [Zbl 0831.65010] \textit{Beichl, Isabel; Sullivan, Francis}, Coping with degeneracies in Delaunay triangulation, 23-30 [Zbl 0831.65150] \textit{Hoffmann, Christoph M.}, Geometric approaches to mesh generation, 31-51 [Zbl 0831.65125] \textit{Schneiders, Robert; Debye, Jürgen}, Refining quadrilateral and brick element meshes, 53-65 [Zbl 0832.73072] \textit{Shephard, Mark S.; Dey, Saikat; Georges, Marcel K.}, Automatic meshing of curved three-dimensional domains: Curving finite elements and curvature-based mesh control, 67-96 [Zbl 0831.65126] \textit{Brière de l'Isle, Eric; George, Paul Louis}, Optimization of tetrahedral meshes, 97-127 [Zbl 0831.65127] \textit{Lin, Tao; Wang, Hong}, A class of error estimators based on interpolating the finite element solutions for reaction-diffusion equations, 129-151 [Zbl 0831.65096] \textit{Mohtar, Rabi; Segerlind, Larry}, Accuracy-based time step criteria for solving parabolic equations, 153-163 [Zbl 0831.65090] \textit{Carlenzoli, Claudio; Quarteroni, Alfio}, Adaptive domain decomposition methods for advection-diffusion problems, 165-186 [Zbl 0831.65129] \textit{Chen, Zhangxin}, \(L^ p\)-posteriori error analysis of mixed methods for linear and quasilinear elliptic problems, 187-199 [Zbl 0831.65110] \textit{Cornetti, Giovanni M.}, A characteristic-Galerkin method for the Navier-Stokes equations in thin domains with free boundaries, 201-213 [Zbl 0833.76035] \textit{Devine, Karen D.; Flaherty, Joseph E.; Loy, Raymond M.; Wheat, Stephen R.}, Parallel partitioning strategies for the adaptive solution of conservation laws, 215-242 [Zbl 0831.65101] \textit{Fish, Jacob; Belsky, Vladimir}, Adaptive multi-grid method for a periodic heterogeneous medium in 1-D, 243-265 [Zbl 0831.65082] \textit{Haghighi, Kamyar; Kang, Eun}, A knowledge-based approach to the adaptive finite element analysis, 267-276 [Zbl 0831.65114] \textit{Hugger, Jens}, An asymptotically exact, pointwise, a posteriori error estimator for the finite element method with super convergence properties, 277-305 [Zbl 0831.65111] \textit{Koch, Manfred}, A mesh-adaptive collocation technique for the simulation of advection-dominated single- and multiphase transport phenomena in porous media, 307-346 [Zbl 0843.76062] \textit{Oden, J. Tinsley; Wu, Weihan; Ainsworth, Mark}, Three-step \(h\)-\(p\) adaptive strategy for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, 347-366 [Zbl 0844.76057] \textit{Schmidt, J. A.; Johnson, C. R.; Eason, J. C.; MacLeod, R. S.}, Applications of automatic mesh generation and adaptive methods in computational medicine, 367-393 [Zbl 0831.65139] \textit{Szabó, Barna A.; Actis, Ricardo L.; Holzer, Stefan M.}, Solution of elastic-plastic stress analysis problems by the \(p\)-version of the finite element method, 395-416 [Zbl 0832.73073] \textit{Ware, J.; Berzins, M.}, Adaptive finite volume methods for time-dependent PDEs, 417-430 [Zbl 0831.65098] \textit{Zhang, Zhimin; Zhu, J. Z.}, Superconvergence of the derivative patch recovery technique and a posteriori error estimation, 431-450 [Zbl 0833.65119]