Symposium on Constructive and Computational Methods for Differential and Integral Equations Held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana on February 17-20, 1974

Book excerpt: Contents: The discrete-ordinates method for the transport equation; The numerical solution of the equations for rotating stars; Automatic solution of differential equations; Integral operators for parabolic equations and their application; Galerkin methods for modeling gas pipelines; The application of sparse matrix methods to the numerical solution of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations; Collocation solutions of integro-differential equations; On Dirichlet's problem for quasilinear elliptic equations; The numerical solution of some elliptic boundary value problems by integral operator methods; Iterative schemes for elliptic systems; Extrapolation in the finite element method with penalty; Transonic design in two dimensions; Approximate regularized solutions to improperly posed linear integral and operator equations; A majorization technique for hyperbolic equations; Boundary layer methods for ordinary differential equations with small coefficients multiplying the highest derivatives; Fixed point iterations using infinite matrices, 2; The line method for parabolic differential equations, problems in boundary layer theory and existence of periodic solutions; An integral equation method for generalized analytic functions; Solving partial differential equations using ILLIAC 4.