Boundary Element Technology

Section One: Potential Problems A new analysis method for potential inverse problems by BEM; Sensitivity analysis of two-dimensional potential problem based on direct Trefftz formulation; Adaptive refinement scheme for the least-squares fundamental solution method for potential problems. Section Two: Heat Transfer Interaction of radiation with other heat transfer modes; Integral equation solution of heat extraction from a fracture in hot dry rock; TFFB coupling BEM/FVM algorithm for multi-dimensional conjugate heat transfer; BEM-FEV solution of conjugate heat transfer problems in Czochralski crystal growth process; Heat transfer under an air-water cooling jet. Section Three: Electrical Problems BEM application for thin electrolyte corrosion problem; Modeling of coal seam sounding curves by BEM; Application of the method of boundary integral equations to the investigation of electroelastic fields in piezoelectric medium. Section Four: Acoustics Hybrid boundary element formulation in acoustics; BEM analysis of sound wave propagation in ducts with obstacles, cross-section variations and bypass elements; Multithread BEM computation for packed silencers; Time domain boundary element method for acoustic scattering problems with frequency-dependent reflective surface; Section Five: Fluid and Fluid Structure Interaction The effect of surface tension and surface friction on the free surface flow in a two-dimensional channel; A GEM-FEM study of fluid structure interaction; Computations of hydrodynamic characteristics of a floating amphibious vehicle using BEM. Section Six: Soil Structure Interaction Poroelastic analyses near subsurface excavations and underneath a dam; Boundary element analysis of buried pipe-soil interaction. Section Seven: Numerical Techniques On the use of multipole methods for domain integration in the BEM; Accurate computation of Green's functions in regions of complex configuration; Conjugate gradient-boundary element method for a Cauchy problem in the Lam? system; Application of the matrix force method to the BEM analysis of plates with internal constraints; Model and numeric investigation of impulse contact fields of interface layers. Section Eight: Industrial Applications Pressure vessel design using the boundary element method with optimisation; The effect of protective coatings on galvanic corrosion for bolted components; Issues and needs for health monitoring of naval structures; Boundary shape effects on the productivity of oil well clusters; Homogenization of composites using eigenstrains. Section Nine: Dual Reciprocity Method Domain integral reduction in BEM: the foundations; An iterative DRBEM for three-dimensional Poisson's equation; The method of fundamental solutions with dual reciprocity for potential problems of the type L2u=b(x,y,u); Iterative solution techniques in the DRM-MD approach; DRBEM solution of temperatures and velocities in DC cast aluminium slabs; The dual reciprocity method for coupled thermal/electromagnetic problems; Modeling diffraction and refraction of weakly nonlinear waves with the DRBEM approach.