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VIII Preface

computer programs arranged to provide the student a better understanding of
the computational tools discussed. Parts of the material in Chapters 3, 6, 7 to
9 and 11 and 12 can be covered in a second semester course, with parts of the
material in those chapters serving as useful information/reference.
A list of related and current books and solution manuals, including the one
for the present book, published by Horizons and Springer-Verlag, is available
on the Horizons Web site,
http://hometown.aol.com/tuncerc/
The authors would like to express their appreciation to several people who
have given thoughts and time to the development of this book. The first and
second authors in particular want to thank Herb Keller of the California Insti-
tute of Technology, Jim Whitelaw of Imperial College, and Hsun Chen of the
California State University, Long Beach. They also want to thank K. C. Chang
for proof reading the manuscript and making many useful suggestions. The third
and fourth authors like to thank Bombardier Aerospace for supplying some of
the applications cited in the text. Thanks are also due to Kurt Mattes for his
excellent typing and Karl Koch for the production of the book.
Finally we would like to thank our wives, Sylvia Cebeci, Jennifer Shaw,
Nathalie David and Solange Lusinde, and our children for their understanding
and the hours they relinquished to us. Their continuous support and encour-
agement are greatly appreciated.

Long Beach, April 2005 Tuncer Cebeci
Jian P. Shao
Fassi Kafyeke
Eric Laurendeau