The development of DELTAE has been supported in part by many agencies and entities: Tektronix Corporation, SPAWAR, the Naval Postgraduate School, and, most importantly, by several branches of the Department of Energy: Advanced Industrial Concepts, Materials Science in Basic Energy Sciences, and our local Industrial Partnership Center. A long discussion with Pat Arnott helped us define the scope of this work, and comparisons with the results of parallel-plate-stack codes (written by Al Migliori and Dick Martin) were useful in the early stages. Suggestions by Kim Godshalk, Charles Jin, Tom Hofler, and Jeff Olson have lead to significant improvements in DELTAE's capability and usability.