This monograph contains results of recent research interests concerning solution strategies employed for solving real life problems pertaining to Modelling & Scientific Computing, Control & Optimizations and Financial Mathematics.

• The topics included are: • Modelling of volcanic lava flows, soft drink process, microwave heating, flow inside an industrial transport blower, slurry phase reactor for Fisher-Tropsch synthesis, ice in transmission lines • Numerical solutions of 3-D unsteady flow dynamics in a vessel with aneurysm, viscoelastic contraction fluid flows, anisotropic plate bending problems using mixed FEM, elliptic problems by employing parallel spectral method, Stefan problem, Fisher-Kolmogorov equation • Optimal sizing and shape optimization in injection moulding process, design optimization of an aircraft wing, control strategies in the transmission of malaria • A decision model for natural oil buying policy and numerical simulation for valuation of American options on stocks • A new predictive classifier in data mining, a novel partition approach in large data sets, and task allocation problem • The process of adhesive contact of membranes and beams, variational characterization of resonant states in integrated optical devices, and estimation of windowing errors in the wavelet based reconstruction in tomography.

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