Since the creation of the term "Scientific Computing" and of its German counterpart "Wissenschaftliches Rechnen" (whoever has to be blamed for that), scientists from outside the field have been confused about the some­ what strange distinction between scientific and non-scientific computations.

I Fluid Flow.- On the Realistic Performance of Linear Algebra Components in Iterative Solvers.- Applying the Checkpointing Routine treeverse to Discretizations of Burgers’ Equation.- Adaptive Grids for Time Dependent Conservation Laws: Theory and Applications in CFD.- Numerical Bifurcation Analysis of Premixed Combustion in Porous Inert Media.- Multigrid Solution of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations and its Application to Parallel Computers.- Simulation of Internal and Free Turbulent Flows.- Application of Parallel Numerical Flow Solvers Invoking Advanced Turbulence-Transport Models to Aircraft Components.- Solution of Coupled Problems by Parallel Multigrid.- Coupled Numerical Computations of the Fluid Damped Oscillations of a Lamina.- Efficient Treatment of Complicated Geometries and Moving Interfaces for CFD Problems.- II Dynamic Systems and Optimal Control.- Very Low Thrust Trajectory Optimization.- Mechanical Multibody Systems with Deformable Components.- Real Time Simulation and Online Control for Virtual Test Drives of Cars.- Numerical Simulation of Vibrations for the Design of a Rear Axle.- Flight Tests with Computer Generated Synthetic Vision.- Flight Path Optimization with a New Homotopy Method for Reducing Safety Hazards in Microbursts.- Integrated User Environment for the Numerical Solution of Optimal Control Problems.- Simulation and Optimization of Logistic Processes Involving Sloshing Media.- Numerical Simulation and Optimal Control of Air Separation Plants.- Advanced Extrapolation Methods for Large Scale Differential Algebraic Problems.- III Melting, Coating, and Crystal Growth.- On the Generation and Spreading of ’Finger’ Instabilities in Film Coating Processes.- CrysVUN++, a Powerful Computer Code for Global Thermal Modelling ofIndustrial Crystal Growth Processes.- 3D Adaptive Unstructured Grid Solver: Application to Flow and GaAs Deposition in the Planetary Reactor™.- Direct Navier-Stokes Simulations of Turbulent Czochralski Flows.- IV Semiconductors and Circuits.- Advanced Models, Applications, and Software Systems for High Performance Computing - Application in Microelectronics.- Numerical Simulation of Microstructured Semiconductor Devices, Transducers, and Systems.- Parallel Multigrid Methods for the Continuity Equations in Semiconductor Device Simulation.- Partitioning Strategies in Circuit Simulation.- A New Stochastic Integration Scheme for the Efficient Solution of Randomly Disturbed Circuits.- Eigenvalue Solvers for Electromagnetic Fields in Cavities.- Remarks on the Convex Analysis of the Energy Model of Semiconductor Devices.- Analysis of Electromechanical Microdevices Using Coupled FEM-BEM Based on the TP2000 CAD Platform.- Numerical Analysis of Distributed Inductive Parasitics in High Power Bus Bars.- Low Pressure Discharges in Plasma Reactors: Modelling and Computer-Aided Diagnostics.- V HPSC in Physics and Chemistry.- Numerical Fluid Dynamics in Astrophysics with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics.- Parallel Computation of Multi-Dimensional Neutron and Photon Transport in Inhomogeneous Media.- Quantum Chemistry on Parallel Computers: Concepts and Results of a Density Functional Method.- Future Trends in HPSC.- Technological Trends and their Impact on the Future of Supercomputers.

This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on high performance scientific and engineering computing held in Munich in March 1998 and organized by FORTWIHR, the Bavarian Consortium for High Performance Scientific Computing. The 38 contributions cover engineering applications for numerical simulation from the fields fluid flow, optimal control, crystal growth and semiconductor technology, as well as numerical simulation in astrophysics or quantum chemistry. In contrast to related collections, the reader gets a really interdisciplinary spectrum of the state of the art of selected topics of scientific computing with recent results of research groups from applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics and chemistry.

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