Lecture Notes in Mathematics Edited by A Dold and B Eckmann 679 Numerical Treatment of Differential Equations in Applications Proceedings, Oberwolfach, Germany, December 1977 Edited by R Ansorge and W Tornig s Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1978Editors Rainer Ansorge Institut fir Angewandte Mathematik Universitat Hamburg BundesstraBe 55 D-2000 Hamburg Willi Tornig Fachbereich Mathematik Technische Hochschule Darmstadt SchloBgartenstraBe 7 D-6100 Darmstadt Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Numerical treatment of differential equations in applications. (Lecture notes in mathematics ; 679) "Meeting on numerical treatment of differential equations, held in the Mathematical Research Center of Oberwolfach," Bibliography: Includes index. 1. Differential equations--Nune: Congresses. I. Ansorge, Rainer. II, ig, W III, Series: “Lecture notes in mathematics (Berlin) ; 679. no. 679 [A370] 510'.8s [519.4] 78-1883 AMS Subject Classifications (1970): 34 C15, 65-02, 65 L xx, 65M xx, 65N xx ISBN 3-540-08940-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 0-387-08940-3 Springer-Verlag New York Heidelberg Berlin This work 1S subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, re- printing, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1978 Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Beltz Offsetdruck, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2141/3140-543210Foreword The meeting on numerical treatment of differential equations, held in the Mathematical Research Center of Oberwolfach, West-Germany (Decem- ber, 12-16, 1977), was attended by mathematicians as well as by engi- neers, scientists, and economists. One of the aims of the conference was to foster cooperation between representatives of these fields, at least with respect to the topic of the meeting. It was very interesting for the attending mathematicians to become acquainted with new mathematical problems (and some methods to solve them), arising e.g. from engineering, which are unconventional and which therefore have not yet been treated by mathematicians. On the other hand, the participating non-mathematicians took advan- tage of the opportunity to inform themselves intensively about new methods and results in numerical analysis. Many new ideas were presented at the conference; a great part of them now appear in these notes. We want to thank the director of the Oberwolfach-Institut, Prof. Barner, who gave us the opportunity for organizing this meeting. We also pay tribute to Dr. Kreth, Hamburg, who coordinated the pro- duction of the copy-ready manuscript. Last but not least we thank the editors of the Lecture Notes series and the Springer-Verlag for the speedy publishing of this volume. Hamburg and Darmstadt, Mai 1976 R. Ansorge W. Tornig