The influence of scientific computing widened considerably in almost every area during the last few decades of the 20th century. Science and engineering particularly are areas greatly influenced by simulations - image processing, thin films, mathematical finance, electrical engineering, moving interfaces and combustion rely on the field, to name but a few. One half of this book focuses on the techniques of scientific computing: domain decomposition, the absorption of boundary conditions and one-way operators, convergence analysis of multi-grid methods and other multi-grid techniques, dynamical systems, and matrix analysis. The remainder of the book is concerned with combining techniques with concrete applications: stochastic differential equations, image processing, thin films, and asymptotic analysis for combustion problems.