Boundary Elements: 20th

SECTION 1: FRACTURE MECHANICS AND FATIGUE Numerical Green's function applied to fracture mechanics: 3-D implementation; Developments in the use of the dual boundary element method for the fracture analysis of plate bending problems; Dynamic fracture mechanics with crack edges contact interaction; Dynamic dual boundary element analysis for 3-D fracture mechanics; Failure analysis of gears using the boundary element method; Probability based computation of life expectancy of mechanical structures; Trends in the stochastic BEM. SECTION 2: INELASTIC PROBLEMS Inelastic analysis without cell by improved multiple-reciprocity BEM; Accurate evaluations of strongly singular domain integrals in non-linear BEM; A fully regulated direct boundary formulation for three-dimensional elastoplastic problems; Homogenization of grain structure. SECTION 3: CONTACT MECHANICS A comparison between non-conforming node-to-point and weak approaches in contact problem by BEM; Adaptive solution of rolling contact using boundary element method; A method to compute the effect of groups of frictional bolts; BEM analysis of the contact problem in fibres debonded of a matrix. Effects of curing stresses. SECTION 4: ELECTROMAGNETICS Time domain boundary element analysis of resistively loaded wire; The steady-state wave process in a piezoceramic medium with cavities (plane deformation). SECTION 5: COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES Galerkin method in time domain BEM analysis; On time-dependent domain integral approximation using radial basis functions; Efficient domain calculation in direct boundary element method; The residual as an error estimator in the BEM; Constructing adaptive boundary elements for the Poisson-type nonlinear problem; An estimate of numerical errors by means of boundary integral equations; Regularizing transformationmethod for evaluation of singular and near-singular integrals; Parallel Laplace transform boundary element methods for diffusion problems; r-Adaptive boundary element method; A new error indicator based on stresses for adaptive meshing with Hermite boundary elements; Panel clustering for 3-D elastostatics using spherical harmonics; A BEM-formulation applied to the solution of nonlinear dynamic problems; A boundary-only BEM for linear and nonlinear problems; Application of finite-dimensional perturbation technique to boundary integral equations; Theory and practice of superconvergence based a posteriori error estimation in a Galerkin boundary element method. SECTION 6: INVERSE PROBLEMS Green's functions in the numerical solution of some inverse boundary value problems; 3-D impedance tomography of high contrast objects; An efficient inverse BEM algorithm to characterize space dependent thermal conductivity with an evolutionary-genetic approach. SECTION 7: FLUID DYNAMICS AND AERODYNAMICS Integral formulation of non-steady convective diffusion problem with high source term value;An indirect boundary element method for slow viscous flow in a bounded region subject to surface tension forces; Parallel indirect multipole BEM analysis of Stokes flow in a multiply connnected domain; An asymptotic boundary element method for the 2D Stokes problem in the vorticity formulation; Rayleigh-Benard convection of non-Newtonian fluid; Leaky and confined aquifer flow analysis using 3D BEM; Unsteady free surface flow around hydrofoils; A comparison of different radial basis functions in DRBEM solution of the Navier-Stokes equations; Emergence of nonlinear dynamics in 3D cavity mixing of Newtonian and viscoelastic (linear) fluids;Estimation of physical unknowns in submerged breakwater using nonlinear least squares-boundary element method. SECTION 8: ACOUSTICS The dual reciprocity method for Helmholtz-type operators; A generalized Helmholtz equation fundamental solution using a conformal mapping and dependent variable transformation; Boundary element analysis of certain structural-acoustic coupling problems and its application; Applications of a new composite BIE for 3-D acoustic problems; Muffler analysis using the direct mixed-body boundary and an efficient four-pole approach; Application of boundary element methods in modeling multidimensional flame-acoustic interactions. SECTION 9: CORROSION Finite resistivity and shipboard corrosion prevention system performance; Boundary element model of electrochemical dissolution with geometric non-linearities; A general formulation based on the boundary element method for the analysis of grounded installations in layered soils. SECTION 10: ELASTODYNAMICS Determination of 3D time domain responses in latered media by using a coupled BE/FE process; Modeling of turbo-generator rotors using BEM; Boundary element dynamic non-linear stress analysis by mass matrix approach; The boundary element method applied to transient dynamic anistropic problems. SECTION 11: THERMAL PROBLEMS Transient conduction-radiation problems: dual reciprocity solution; Improvement of the frit salvage process for a cathode ray tube; Extension of the dual reciprocity boundary element method to the problems of phase-change and thermal wave propagation; Boundary integral formulation for non-linear heat conduction in anistropic heterogeneous media; Boundary element analysis of conduction problems; FVM/BEM approach for the solution of non-linear conjugate heat transfer problems. SECTION 12: GEOMETRICALLY NON-LINEAR PROBLEMS Solution of 2D, 3D and axisymmetric finite deformation problems by the boundary-domain integral method; On incremental equilibrium equations in solid mechanics.