Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Continuum Mechanics : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Continuum Mechanics September 29 – October 3 2000 Yamaguchi Japan This book shows the latest frontiers of the research by the most active researchers in the field of numerical mathematics. The papers in the book were presented in a symposium at Yamaguchi Japan. The subject of the symposium was mathematical modeling and numerical simulation in continuum mechanics. The topics of the lectures ranged from solids to fluids and included both mathematical and computational analysis of phenomena and algorithms. The readers can study the latest results on shells plates flows in various situations fracture of solids new ways of exact error estimates and many other topics