This Volume contains the Proceedings of a French - Australian workshop held in Melbourne, Australia from 3-6 December 2001. Entitled "Coupling of Fluids, Structures and Waves in Aeronautics (CFSWA)", the workshop was principally organised by CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Dassault Aviation and CNRS. The main purpose was to explore new computational methods and tools for efficient multi-disciplinary design in aero­ nautics. This enterprise strongly depends on modelling of coupled disciplines and development of associated multi-disciplinary simulation tools. As an example of the requirements, the original logo for the workshop illustrated coupled aeroelas­ ticity, scattered radar waves and high lift problems. Optimisation is required with respect to mUltiple objectives under conflict. Among the many challenges to be addressed are mathematical, numerical and en­ gineering problems involving coupled flows, structures and waves. Future prog­ ress on these topics strongly depends on the physical and mathematical modelling of coupled disciplines and the development of associated multi-disciplinary simu­ lation tools. Strong couplings require appropriate exchanges of different kinds of information: physical and geometrical description of models, coupling of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) at interfaces, and specification of boundary condi­ tions or multi-objective functions in optimisation or control problems. Validation of multi-physics software also requires ever more efficient and accurate graphic visualisation tools representing experimental and computational data stored in da­ tabases.

1 Fluids.- The effect of noise and vibration on separated flow regions in hypersonic flow.- Computational bluff body fluid dynamics and aeroelasticity.- Dynamics and control of flames interacting with pressure waves.- A general method for studying the hydrodynamic stability of flows in enclosures.- 2 Structures.- Application of unsteady fluid-structure methods to problems in aeronautics and space.- Numerical simulation in aeroelasticity for complex configurations in a transonic flow.- Numerical prediction of flow instabilities and aeroelastic effects.- Explicit finite element modelling of impact events on composite aerospace structures.- Dynamics and control of smart structures using piezoelectric actuators and sensors.- Overview of nonlinear finite element modelling of flexible manoeuvring aerospace structures.- 3 Electromagnetics.- Inverse problems in HF radar.- Antenna integration on aircraft; needs and methodology.- An iterative method for time-harmonic integral Maxwell¿s equations.- High performance computation and visualization of EMs using an integrated computation system.- 4 Optimisation.- Genetic algorithm optimisation of mathematical models ¿ an aircraft structural dynamics case study.- Techniques for optimal shape design.- Evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective design optimisation.- 5 Mathematical Methods and Tools.- Some remarks on fluid-structure interaction problems in case of rigid body plus small perturbations.- An investigation of the least-squares finite element method in electromagnetism.- Fluids, finite elements and multi-physics.- 6 Aircraft design.- Status and future challenges of CFD in a coupled simulation environment for aircraft design.- Challenges in development of mini and micro air vehicles.- Round Table Discussion.- Future tools for design and manufacture of innovative products in the aeronautics industry.