Boundary Elements XIII

Section 1: Potential Problems.- Treatment of Corners in the Complex Variable Boundary Element Method.- On Using the Delta-Trigonometric Method to Solve the 2-D Neumann Potential Problem.- Non-Linear Material Problems with BEM: Dual Reciprocity v. The Kirchhoff Transformation.- Boundary Integral Equations for a Class of Nonlinear Problems by the Kirchhoff Transformation.- Green’s Functions for Helmholtz and Laplace Equations in Heterogeneous Media.- Section 2: Diffusion and Convection Problems.- A Study of Flow Structures in a Cavity due to Double-Diffusive Natural Convection by Boundary Element Method and Sub-Domain Technique.- The Laplace Transform Boundary Element (LTBE) Method for the Solution of Diffusion-Type Equations.- Solution of Variable Coefficients PDEs by Means of BEM and Perturbation Technique.- Section 3: Fluid Mechanics.- Explicit Forms of the Fundamental Solution Tensor and Singular Integrals for the 2D Primitive-Variables Navier-Stokes Formulation.- Lagrangian Approach of BEM for Incompressible Unsteady Viscous Flow.- Regular Perturbations for the Exterior Three-Dimensional Slow Viscous Flow Problem.- A Boundary Element Study of the Motion of Rigid Particles in Internal Stokes Flow.- Boundary Element Methods for Nonstationary Stokes Problem in Three Dimensions and Their Convergence Analysis.- The Motion of a Semi-Infinite Bubble between Parallel Plates.- Moving Boundary Free Flow with Viscosity by BEM.- Section 4: Fluid Flow.- Panel Methods and Their Applications to Sailboard Technology.- Application of the Integral Equation Method to Flows Around a Wing with Circular-Arc Section.- A Variational Symmetric Boundary Element Formulation for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems.- Calculation of Two-Dimensional Potential Cascade Flow Using an Indirect Boundary Element Method.- A Combined Two- and Three-Dimensional Boundary Element Method for the Flow over a Train in a Cross-Wind at Large Angles of Attack.- Section 5: Wave Propagation.- Numerical Study of Surface Waves in Channels.- Water Wave Modeling Using a Boundary Element Method with Overhauser Spline Elements.- Section 6: Groundwater Flow.- Boundary Element Formulation for Time Harmonic Poroelastic Problems.- Saltwater Intrusion in Leaky Aquifers Modelled with B-Spline Elements.- 2-D Steady State and Transient Analysis of Salt Water Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers by a Direct Time Domain BEM.- Section 7: Heat Transfer.- Boundary Element Solution of Combined-Mode Heat Transfer in Radiatively Participating Media.- Computational Aspects of the Boundary Element Method Applied to Frictional Heating.- Thermal Simulations of Semiconductor Chips Using BEM.- Application of the Complex Variable Boundary Element Method to the Solution of Heat Conduction Problems in Doubly and Multiply Connected Domains.- Section 8: Electrical Problems.- Comparison of Pure and Coupled BEM Methods for the Study of a Thin Plate Induction Oven.- Hybrid Boundary Integral Equation Method for Charge Injection and Transport in Electroreceptors.- Corner Modelling for BEM in Magnetostatic.- Application of Boundary Element and Characteristic Methods for Modelling of Corona Fields.- Section 9: Geomechanics.- Boundary Integral Techniques for Stochastic Problems in Geomechanics.- Frequency Domain BE Calculations and Interferometry Measurements in Geomechanics.- Foundation-Soil-Foundation Dynamics Using a 3-D Frequency Domain BEM.- Seismic Waves in an Impacted Half-Space: Time Domain BEM Versus the Method of Generalized Ray.- Seismic Response of Soil-Structure-Interaction Problems Under Unilateral Contact Conditions.- The Three-Dimensional Dynamic Displacement Discontinuity Method.- Section 10: Plates and Shells.- A Boundary Element Technique on the Solution of Cylindrical Shell Bending Problems.- An Indirect Boundary Element Method for Plate Bending Problems.- A New Regularized Boundary Integral Formulation for Thin Elastic Plate Bending Analysis.- An Integral Equation Formulation for the Boundary-Finite Element Model in Stiffened Plate Bending.- A Modified Local Green’s Function Technique for the Mindlin’s Plate Model.- Boundary Elements and Perturbation Theory for Vibrating Plates.- Section 11: Inelastic Problems.- DBEM Analysis of Beams on Modified Elastoplastic Winkler Foundation.- A Simple Integral Equation Method for the Viscoelastic Quasistatic Analysis of Vertically Loaded Pile.- Section 12: Damage Tolerance.- Parametric Continuous Crack Tip Boundary Elements in Two-Dimensional Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics.- First and Second Order Weight Functions for Mixed-Mode Crack Problems.- The Calculation of Energy Release Rates in Composite Laminates using the Boundary Element Method.- Section 13: Contact Mechanics.- Numerical Solution of Thermoelastohydrodynamic Contact Problems by the Boundary Element Method.- Development of Contact Stress Analysis Programs Using the Hybrid Method of FEM and BEM.- Three Dimensional Frictional Conforming Contact Using B.E.M..- A Direct Solution to the BEM and Mathematical Programming Approach for Frictional Constant Contact Problems.- Section 14: Industrial Applications.- New Directions in the BEASY Boundary Element Method Software.- Integrated Computer Aided Surface Modeling and BEM Analysis.- Stress Analysis of the Turbine Rotor Disk by the Axisymmetric Boundary Element Method.- 3-D Spline Boundary Element Method for the Analysis of Sluice.- Section 15: Design Sensitivity and Optimization.- Local Shape Optimization Using Boundary Element Zooming Method.- A Modified Finite Difference Method to Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis.- Two Continuous Approaches with Boundary Representation to Shape Sensitivity Analysis.- Application of the EBP-BEM to Optimizing the Cavity of Large Aluminum Reduction Cells.- Section 16: Inverse Problems.- Identification of Defects by the Elastodynamic Boundary Element Method Using Noisy Additional Information.- The Solution of a Nonlinear Inverse Elliptic Problem by the Boundary Element Method.- Section 17: Special Techniques.- The Method of Infinite Matrices — An Alternative to BEM?.- Robust Boundary Element Scheme for Helmholtz Eigenvalue Equation.- Solution of Singular Potential Problems by the Modified Local Green’s Function Method (MLGFM).- Boundary Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Members.- Section 18: Numerical Aspects.- Consistent Regularization of Both Kernels in Hypersingular Integral Equations.- Effective Iterative Solution Methods for Boundary Element Equations.- A New Approach Treating Corners in Boundary Element Method.- An Overview of Integration Methods for Hypersingular Boundary Integrals.- Section 19: Computational Aspects.- Conforming and Non-Conforming Elements in a Three-Dimensional H-Adaptive Boundary Element Method.- P-Version of the Boundary Element Method for Elastostatic Problems.- Application of Overhauser C1 Continuous Boundary Elements to “Hypersingular” BIE for 3-D Acoustic Wave Problems.- A Multigrid-Based Boundary Element Method Without Integral Equations.- Fundamental Solution for Two-Dimensional Microelastic Body.- The Boundary Element Method on a Transputer Network.- A Direct and Natural Coupling of BEM and FEM.- Application of Sub-element Technique for Improving the Interior Displacement and Stress Calculations by Using the Boundary Element Method.- The Hybrid Boundary Element Method for Problems Involving Body Forces.- Numerical Implementation of a Normal Derivative Integral Equation in Acoustics.- Authors’ Index.