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In many applications there is a particular interest in the study of certain quantities of the solution. These include physical quantities, for example in aerodynamics the drag or lift of an airfoil, the pressure difference between leading and trailing edge of the airfoil, or single density or pressure values on the profile of airfoil. Multi-dimensional compressible flows are usually modelled by nonlinear conservation laws whose solutions exhibit a wide range of localized structures, such as shock waves, contact discontinuities and rarefaction waves. In this thesis the author uses Galerkin method for numerical solution of hyperbolic conversation laws, for example compressible Euler equations of gas dynamics. The author deduces an adaptive algorithm for efficient computation of physically relevant quantities of the solution. This includes a posteriori error estimation for the computed quantity, and also an adaptive mesh design specifically tailored to the computation of this quantity. The approach is illustrated by computation of drag and lift coefficients of airfoils in inviscid compressible gas flows. For the discretisation of hyperbolic problems, the author uses discontinuous Galerkin finite element method. The thesis is well written, and the results exposed are rigorously analyzed.