Proceedings, "WASCOM 2003" 12th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media : Villasimius (Cagliari), Italy, 1-7 June 2003

This book contains about 20 invited papers and 40 contributed papers in the research areas of theoretical continuum mechanics, kinetic theory and numerical applications of continuum mechanics. Collectively these papers give a good overview of the activities and developments in these fields in the last few years.