"Free Boundary Problems: Theory and Applications presents the work and results of experts at the forefront of current research in mathematics, material sciences, chemical engineering, biology, and physics. It contains the plenary lectures and contributed papers of the 1997 International Interdisciplinary Congress proceedings held in Crete."--BOOK JACKET. "This book should be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in partial differential equations and their applications, numerical analysis, computational mathematics, and engineering."--BOOK JACKET.