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(This volume contains the invited papers presented at the 13th Dundee Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis held at the University of Dundee, Scotland, 27-30 June 1989. The 16 papers published here represent accounts of recent research work by leading numerical analysts covering a wide variety of fields of interest. The book is a guide to the direction being taken by research in many areas of numerical analysis. It should be of interest to graduate students and research workers concerned with the use of numerical methods for solving partial differential equations and particularly finite element methods for problems in fluid dynamics. It also contains contributions to research into numerical methods for ordinary differential equations and integral equations, the solution of optimization problems and curve fitting by splines. A range of topics in numerical linear algebra is also covered. Some of the contributions reflect the trend into the use of parallel computers)