Boundary Element Technology

Section 1- Fluid Flow: Application of BEM to determine particle trajectories close to a pore of a porous surface under Stokes flow; Simulation of the nonlinear dynamics of charged liquids using boundary element methods; Boundary element analysis of the productivity of complex petroleum well configurations; Radioactive contaminant transport in fractured porous media -an analytical solution; Use of electric analogy for the determination of the soil permeability from field tests; A boundary element method for indoor air quality simulation. Section 2 - Heat Transfer: A BEM-based inverse algorithm to retrieve multi-dimensional heat transfer coefficients from transient temperature measurements; DRBEM solution of natural convection in porous media: Darcy, Forchheimer and Brinkman models. Section 3 - Shape Optimization: Shape optimization of composites using the BEM; A finite element-boundary element method for advection-diffusion problems with variable advective fields and infinite domains; Shape optimization of shaft with variable diameter by boundary element method; Optimal design of cavitating hydrofoils by genetic algorithms. Section 4 - Stress Analysis: Two short-cut determination methods to calculate stress intensity factor; Application of complex variables boundary element method to modeling borehole stresses in anistropic stress field in non-linear rocks; Analysis of 2D crack using symmetric Galerkin boundary element method. Section 5 - Vibrations and Dynamics: The use of BEM for analysis of effects caused by acoustic transients in urban areas; Calculations of transient wave propagation problems in semi-infinite media by BEM in the frequency domain; 2D time domain boundary element direct and indirect formulation applied to soil dynamics; Decay properties for solutions for some damped wave equations. Section 6 - Electrostatics and Electromagnetics: The dipole approximation method and its coupling with the regular boundary element method for efficient electrical impedance tomography; Approximate solution for electron wave transport systems with point-like obstacles; On practical modification to the Barnes-Hut multipole method for electromagnetic scattering. Section 7 - Industrial Applications; Analysis of a new concept in spline design for transmission output shafts; Investigating ICCP system design of ship with waterjet propulsion using boundary element technology; Two dimensional analysis of a drive sprocket mounting to a shaft using boundary element methods; Forensic investigation of failed precast concrete tunnel segments through field performance monitoring and boundary element analysis. Section 8 - Radial Basis Functions: On the numerical solution of differential equations with radial basis functions; Numerical computations for damage of elastic materials; Using compactly supported radial basis functions to solve partial differential equations; Radial basis approximation functions in the boundary element dual reciprocity method; A simple remark on the order of approximation by compactly supported radial basis functions and related networks; RBF and optimal stopping problems: an application to the pricing of vanilla options on one risky asset; Radial basis functions with compactly support and multizone decomposition: applications to environmental modelling; Smoothing interpolation with radial basis functions. Section 9 - Special Methods: The method of fundamental solutions for time-dependent problems; The method of fundamental solutions for axisymmetric problems; Computation of optimal Bayesian credible sets for the binomial and Poisson distributions; Solving the Liouville equation with the general boundary element approach; Vector interpolation for time alignment in speech recognition; Analysis of three-dimensional potential problems using the complex variable boundary element method; Determination of the optimal mixture distribution Section 10 - Computational Aspects: An efficient multilevel master-slave model for distributed parallel computation; Minimizing some of the mesh errors in boundary element method; Incremental improvements to the Telles third degree polynomial transformation for the evaluation of nearly singular boundary integrals; Issues related to interface calculations in the boundary element method; An h-adaptive boundary element method for fracture mechanics; Multiquadratic methods in the numerical treatment of the integro-differential equations of collective non-ruin; the finite time case. Part II: Computational Methods and Testing for Engineering Integrity (Edited by I. Harik) Section 1 - Fracture and Fatigue: Experimental validation of a fracture plane model for multiaxial cyclic loading; Optimal numerical analysis of branched cracks in biaxial stress fields; Probabilistic predictions of fatigue crack behaviour; Preliminary high-temperature plastic deformations and fatigue resistance of titanium alloy; Fatigue crack propagation under differential types of random loading; Tension of an infinite solid containing a doubly-periodic array of slant cracks; Effect of thermomechanical coupling on localized damage of concrete; 3D-simulation of ductile crack growth; Influence of localised damage around crack tip on fracture propagation. Section 2 - Simulation: In-plane shear of an infinite solid containing a doubly-periodic array of slant cracks; Simulation of geotechnical processes using coupled modeling; Limit states of deformations of shock wave loaded viscoplastic structures; Modeling the effects of luggage onblast loadings from internal explosive detonation; Simulation of induction quenching process and verification of finite element model. Section 3 - Behaviour of Materials: Testing of fiberglass composite bridge deck panels; Volumetric corrosion measurement evaluation; Reevaluation of irradiation embrittlement of the surveillance specimens by samples reconstitution; Wear reduction on working surface of railway wheels.