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Preface . . vii
Chapter 1: The Method of Characteristics for the Numerical Solution of Hyperbolic Differential Equations . . 1
Chapter 2: Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Dynamics for Telecommunication Applications . . 89
Chapter 3: Computer Simulation of Radon Measurements with Nuclear Track Detectors . . 125
Chapter 4: Effects of Round-off Errors on Molecular Dynamics Simulations . . 157
Chapter 5: Bi-Dimensional Quantum Tunneling by a Time Dependent Computational Approach . . 185
Chapter 6: Dielectric Confinement in Quantum Dots . . 211
Chapter 7: Painleve Analysis and Symmetries: (2+l)-D Nonlinear Wave Equation Arising in a One-Dimensional Model for the 3D Vorticity Equation . . 233
Chapter 8: Computers and Liquid State Statistical Mechanics . . 243
Index . . 265