Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods: XXXIII

Contents Section 1: Advances in solid mechanics Probabilistic fatigue crack growth using BEM and reliability algorithms; Modification of Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature for modelling of crack growth in the field of residual stresses; A tangential differential operator applied to stress and traction boundary integral equations for plate bending including the shear deformation effect; The BEM for buckling analysis of viscoelastic plates modelled with fractional derivatives Section 2: Fluid flow applications BEM simulation of transient fluid flow phenomena; Devised numerical criteria for calculating the density diffusion in a water reservoir; Application of the boundary element method to 2D and 3D bubble dynamics; Calculation of propeller's load noise using LES and BEM numerical acoustics coupling methods; URANS and LES methodology for two-dimensional natural convection in a differentially heated cavity by BEM; BEM simulations of diffraction-optimized noise barriers Section 3: Computational methods A shape sensitivity analysis approach based on the boundary element method; An efficient boundary element modeling of the time domain integral equations for thin wires radiating in a presence of a lossy media; Stability issues in 3D BEM formulations for transient elastodynamics; A multi-domain boundary element analysis technique based on a row elimination-back-substitution method for solving large-scale engineering problems; A boundary element formulation for axi-symmetric problems in poro-elasticity Section 4: Advanced formulations The expedite boundary element method; A fundamental solution based FE model for thermal analysis of nanocomposites; On STEM of tectonic stress fields in tsunami regions Section 5: Advanced meshless and mesh reduction methods Time integrations in solution of diffusion problems by local integral equations and moving least squares approximation; The MFS for the detection of inner boundaries in linear elasticity; IRBFN-based multiscale solution of a model 1D elliptic equation; A meshless solution of two dimensional density-driven groundwater flow; Evenly spaced data points and radial basis functions; An efficient implementation of the radial basis integral equation method; Forced vibrations of tanks partially filled with liquid under seismic load; Solving heat transfer in a timber beam exposed to fire with methods based on radial basis functions (RBFs); Moving least square - one dimensional integrated radial basis function networks for time dependent problems; The radial basis integral equation method for 2D Helmholtz problems; Meshless computation for partial differential equations of fractional order