Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXVI

Contents Section 1: Acoustic problems The pFFT accelerated BEM for the simulation of 3-D acoustic problems; Numerical investigation on three treatments for eliminating the singularities of acoustic fundamental solutions in the singular boundary method; FEM/wideband FMBEM coupling to model fluid-structure interaction; 3D acoustic wave simulation using BEM formulations and the ACA algorithm; Boundary element approaches for acoustic computation of perforated silencers Section 2: Advanced meshless methods Mesh reduction strategy: special element for modelling anisotropic materials with defects; Quadratically consistent integration schemes for the element-free Galerkin method; Chebyshev tau meshless method based on the highest derivative for solving a class of two-dimensional parabolic problems; Dynamic analysis of the stabilized meshfree method for the Mindlin-Reissner plate; The variational multiscale element free Galerkin method for the simulation of power-law fluid flows; Numerical comparison of two boundary meshless methods for water wave problems Section 3: Boundary knot method Mixed boundary node method for free vibration analysis of rectangular plates with variable thickness and general boundary conditions; Automatic hybrid mesh generation for the boundary face method Section 4: Dual boundary element techniques Numerical evaluation of high-order singular boundary integrals using third-degree B-spline basis functions; Multiple reciprocity boundary face method for transient heat conduction in functionally graded materials; Integral equation formulations in 2D inhomogeneous magnetoelectroelastic media; Three detecting indexes and five regularization techniques for degenerate scales in the BEM/BIEM Section 5: Fracture and crack propagation Static and dynamic fracture analysis in thin piezoelectric laminas by the boundary element method; A time domain BEM for transient dynamic straight crack in piezoelectric solids Section 6: Fundamental solution method Recent advances in singular boundary method for ultra-thin structural problems; Dynamic Green's functions of a buried point load with applications to drainage; The method of fundamental solutions for three-dimensional scattering of elastic waves in layered half space Section 7: Heat transfer A time-domain precise BEM for solving transient heat conduction problems with variable heat conductivities; The application of a multi-domain boundary face method in a steady state heat conduction problem Section 8: Hybrid methods The PCGM for Cauchy inverse problems in 3D potential; M2L optimization in FMBEM and its GPU implementation; The influence of packing dimension on the effective thermal properties of doubly-periodic composites by using super hybrid finite body elements Section 9: Integration techniques A direct method for evaluating arbitrary high-order singular curved boundary integrals; Adaptive integration technique for nearly singular integrals in near-field acoustics boundary element analysis; Analytical integrations of the linearly interpolated triangular IBEM element with the aid of Matlab Symbolic Math Toolbox; Thermal stress analysis of functionally graded material structures using analytical expressions in radial integration BEM; Application of exponential transformation coupled with adaptive subdivision technique for nearly singular boundary integrals in elasticity problems Section 10: Multipole BEM Acoustic eigenvalue analysis using a fast boundary element approach and a contour integral method; Solution of stress intensity factors for 2-D multiple crack problems by the fast multipole boundary element method; A SVD accelerated kernel-independent fast multipole method and its application to BEM; Regularization fast multipole boundary element method for potential flow problems in 3D vortex method Section 11: Structural problems Treatment for geometry noise in mesh generation for welded tubular Y-joints in the BFM; Influence of strut structure on hemodynamic characteristics by the boundary elementary method Section 12: Transient response methods ACA-accelerated time domain BEM for 3-D elastodynamics; An automatic simulation tool for thermal analysis of gravity dams by BFM; A comparative study of time domain BEM for 3D elastodynamic analysis; Numerical study of multiple bubble dynamics with the BEM-ACA approach Section 13: Advanced numerical solvers A general algorithm for numerical evaluation of nearly singular integrals over high-order geometry elements in 3D BEM; A geometric cross approximation method