Recent Topics in Nonlinear PDE IV

A Local Characterization of Blowup Points of Semilinear Heat Equations (Y. Giga). The Navier Stokes Equation Associated with the Discrete Boltzmann Equation (S. Kawashima, Y. Shizuta). Route to Chaos in a Navier-Stokes Flow (S. Kida, M. Yamada, K. Ohkitani). Periodic Solutions of a Viscous Gas Equation (A. Matsumura, T. Nishida). On the One-Dimensional Free Boundary Problem for the Heat-Conductive Compressible Viscous Gas (T. Nagasawa). A Computational Verification Method of Existence of Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Equations (M.T. Nakao). Degenerate Bifurcations in the Taylor-Couette Problem (H. Okamoto). Uniqueness of the Critical Point of the Solution to the Prescribed Constant Mean Curvature Equation over Convex Domain in R² (S. Sakaguchi). Symmetric Domains and Elliptic Equations (T. Suzuki). On the Cauchy Problem for the KP Equation (S. Ukai). Weak Asymptotic Solutions to Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws (A. Yoshikawa). The Vanishing Viscosity Method in Two-Phase Stefan Problems with Nonlinear Flux Conditions (N. Kenmochi, I. Pawlow).