This book contains contributions by sixteen editors of a single journal specialised in real-world applications of mathematics, particularly in engineering. These papers serve to indicate that applying mathematics can be a very exciting and intellectually rewarding activity. Among the applied fields we note Thermal and Marangoni convection. High-pressure gas-discharge lamps, Potential flow in a channel, Thin airfoil problems, Cooling of a fibre, Moving-contact-line problems, Spot disturbance in boundary layers, Fibre-reinforced composites, Numerics of nonuniform grids, Stewartson layers on a rotating disk, Causality and the radiation condition, Nonlinear elastic membranes, Acoustics in bubbly liquids, Oscillation of a floating body in a viscous fluid, Electromagnetics of superconducting composites. Applied mathematicians, theoretical physicists and engineers will find a lot in this book that will be of interest to them.

Twenty-Five Years of Engineering Mathematics. Three-Dimensional Convection in an Inclined Layer Heated from Below; F.H. Busse, R.M. Clever. Maragoni Convection in V-Shaped Containers; H.W. Hoogstraten, H.C.J. Hoefsloot, L.P.B.M. Janssen. Structure of the Temperature Profile within a High-Pressure Gas-Discharge Lamp Operating near Maximum Radiation Efficiency; H.K. Kuiken. The Green Function for Potential Flow in a Rectangular Channel; J.N. Newman. A Note on the Kutta Condition in Glauert's Solution of the Thin Aerofoil Problem; S.W. Rienstra. Free Convection from a Vertical Cooling Fibre; N. Riley. Effective Slip in Numerical Calculations of Moving-Contact-Line Problems; J.A. Moriarty, L.W. Schwartz. Initial-Value Problems for Spot Disturbances in Incompressible or Compressible Boundary Layers; D.J. Doorly, F.T. Smith. Plasticity Theory for Fibre-Reinforced Composites; A.J.M. Spencer. Playing with Nonuniform Grids; A.E.P. Veldman, K. Rinzema. The Stewartson Layer of a Rotating Disk of Finite Radius; A.I. van de Vooren. Causality and the Radiation Condition; J.V. Wehausen. Recent Mathematical Results in the Nonlinear Theory of Flat and Curved Elastic Membranes of Revolution; H.J. Weinitschke, H. Grabmüller. The Emission of Sound by Statistically Homogeneous Bubble Layers; L. van Wijngaarden, J. Buist. Oscillation of a Floating Body in a Viscous Fluid; R.W. Yeung, P. Ananthakrishnan. Electromagnetic Response of Composite Superconducting Wires; L.J.M. van de Klundert, E.M.J. Niessen, P.J. Zandbergen.