This volume will contain selected papers from the lectures held at the BAIL 2010 Conference, which took place from July 5th to 9th, 2010 in Zaragoza (Spain). The papers present significant advances in the modeling, analysis and construction of efficient numerical methods to solve boundary and interior layers appearing in singular perturbation problems. Special emphasis is put on the mathematical foundations of such methods and their application to physical models. Topics in scientific fields such as fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, semiconductor modeling, control theory, elasticity, chemical reactor theory, and porous media are examined in detail.

This volume will contain selected papers from the lectures held at the BAIL 2010 Conference, which took place from July 5th to 9th, 2010 in Zaragoza (Spain). The papers present significant advances in the modeling, analysis and construction of efficient numerical methods to solve boundary and interior layers appearing in singular perturbation problems. Special emphasis is put on the mathematical foundations of such methods and their application to physical models. Topics in scientific fields such as fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, semiconductor modeling, control theory, elasticity, chemical reactor theory, and porous media are examined in detail.

Algunos nuevos materiales, y en particular las aleaciones con memoria de forma, presentan un comportamiento fascinante tanto para el gran publico, como para cientificos, medicos, e ingenieros. Concretamente, las aleaciones metalicas de Niquel-Titanio (NiTi), que ademas son biocompatibles, presentan propiedades de superelasticidad y memoria de forma, permitiendo utilizar este material como si de una "goma metalica" se tratara, alcanzando deformaciones recuperables en torno al 10% (superelasticidad); o inducir deformaciones permanentes que pueden ser completamente recuperadas tras aplicar calor, restituyendo por completo su estado y forma inicial (memoria de forma). En este libro se aborda el comportamiento de las aleaciones NiTi y su modelado numerico para ser implementado en las simulaciones mediante el Metodo de los de los Elementos Finitos, ademas se propone el diseno de dos nuevos dispositivos: un stent para aplicaciones de colon y una ferula para la correccion de deformidades en los dedos de la mano. La metodologia aqui planteada puede servir de ayuda a quien desee explorar las posibilidades de las aleaciones NiTi en el diseno de instrumental, implantes, protesis, ferulas, etc."