Proceedings of the ASME 7th Biennial Conference on EngineeringSystems Design and Analysis, July 19 -22, 2004, Manchester,England. Collection of 127 full-length, peer-reviewed technicalpapers on the following topics: Advanced Energy Systems; AdvancedMaterial Systems; Applied Mechanics: Vibro-Acoustics, Tribology,Control; Advanced Heat Transfer in Energy Systems; Advances in FlowVisualization and Applied Thermodynamics.