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The volume is a collection of papers written by different authors, the best specialists in numerical analysis and hydroaerodynamics at the present, with the aim to expose the newest methods in aeronautical engineering and its connections with other scientifical branches: genetic algorithms, inductive intelligence, neural networks, radial basis function networks; there are also quoted papers on economics. The book contains 29 papers divided in four parts: numerical analysis, computational fluid design, mesh generators, optimization and evolutionary computing. The papers cover practically all important topics in modern computational fluid dynamics. Each paper has approximately the same structure: the theoretical problem, the method used for its solution, and the obtained numerical or experimental results which are usually presented in plots, diagrams or tables. The volume shows the actual level of numerical analysis and compares different points of view on numerical techniques and their applications. The collection could be useful for engineers or scientists in aeronautical branche of science, and for numerical analysts. The redactors of the collection dedicate the book to their friend Bertrand Mantel (1949-1999), a remarquable researcher in fluid dynamics and numerical analysis, whose curriculum vitae is presented at the beginning of the book. Unfortunately, there is a disagreement in his birth datum: 1949 under his photo, and 1959 in his curriculum vitae.