I: The NNFM Series and its Origins -- The NNFM Series -- The Origin of the Series in the GAMM-Committee for Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics -- The Environment of the Series in the Initial Phase -- German and EU High-Performance Computation Centers -- II: Co-Editors Forum: Selected Worldwide Developments -- General Developments of Numerical Fluid Mechanics Until the Middle of the 20th Century -- Golden Age of French CFD in the 1970-80s: Aerodynamics with Finite Elements and the European Multi-Physics HERMES Program -- Code Development in the German Aerospace Industry up to the Mid 1990s -- Discontinuities in Compressible Flows: Italian Contributions -- Flashback: 30 Years Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics in Japan, other Asian Countries and the Western Pacific Rim -- Computational Fluid Mechanics in Russia -- CFD Developments in the Northern European Countries -- Some Developments in Computational Aerodynamics in the UK -- The Development of Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics since the 1960s: US and Canada -- III: Current Applications of Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics/Aerodynamics -- European Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation Systems -- Numerical Aerodynamics in Transport Aircraft Design -- Numerical Aerothermodynamic Design in the European Space Industry -- The Second International Vortex Flow Experiment (VFE-2): Status 2007 -- Large-Eddy Simulations of Flow Problems of Aeronautical Industry -- Issues of Multidisciplinary Design -- Evolutionary Optimisation Methods with Uncertainty for Modern Multidisciplinary Design in Aeronautical Engineering -- CFD Application in Automotive Industry -- IV: Applications to Flow Problems in Engineering and Physics -- Performance Upgrading of Hydraulic Machinery with the Help of CFD -- Calculating Blast Loads for Civil Engineering Structures -- Numerical Modelling of Technical Combustion -- Kinetic Modeling and Simulation of Environmental and Civil Engineering Flow Problems -- CFD in Process Engineering -- Computational Electromagnetics -- Computer Modelling of Magnetically Confined Plasmas -- Frontiers in Computational Geophysics: Simulations of Mantle Circulation, Plate Tectonics and Seismic Wave Propagation -- Solar System Plasmadynamics and Space Weather -- Numerical Fluid Dynamics in Astrophysics -- V: Algorithms, Computer Science and Computers -- Multigrid Software for Industrial Applications - From MG00 to SAMG -- Computer Science and Numerical Fluid Mechanics - An Essential Cooperation -- Commercial CFD in the Service of Industry: The First 25 Years -- High Performance Computing in Academia and Industry - An Example for a Private Public Partnership in HPC -- Computer Hardware Development as a Basis for Numerical Simulation -- Petaflops Computers and Beyond.