Boundary Element Technology VII

Section 1: Fluid Flow.- Boundary Elements and Viscous Flows.- Boundary Integral Methods for Viscous Free-Boundary Problems: Deformation of Single and Multiple Fluid-Fluid Interfaces.- A Completed Double Layer Boundary Element Method with Domain Decomposition.- A BDF-BEM Scheme for Modelling Viscous Sintering.- A Method of Regularization of the Hypersingular Integral Contained in the Traction Boundary Integral Equation for the Stokes Flow Problem.- Green's Function for Axisymmetric Poroelasticity and Coupled Thermoelasticity.- Application of Boundary Element Techniques to the Motion of Aerosol Particles.- Boundary Element Simulation of the Mixing Process of Polymer Blends.- A Case Study of Saltwater Intrusion in a Long and Thin Aquifer.- Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method for Heterogeneous Porous Media.- A Boundary Integral Method for Steady Unsaturated Flow in Nonhomogeneous Media.- Boundary Element Method for Visco-Poroelasticity with Rock Mechanics Applications.- Determination of Velocity Distribution of an Incompressible Fluid in an Elliptical Pipe by Boundary Elements.- The Completed Second Kind Boundary Integral Equation Method for the Deformation of a Gas Bubble Due to Low Reynolds Number Flow.- Section 2: Coupled Problems.- Solution Method for Coupled Elastostatic BEM and FEM Domains.- Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis by a Coupled Boundary Element-Finite Element Method in Time Domain.- Solution of the Helmholtz-Poincaré Wave Equation the Using Coupled Boundary Integral Equations and Optimal Surface Eigenfunctions.- Fully-Coupled Fluid-Structure Formulation of a Baffled Rectangular Orthotropic Plate Using the Boundary Element and Finite Element Methods.- Section 3: Electrical And Electro-Magnetic Problems.- Axisymmetric Static Electromagnetic ProblemsSolved by Boundary Element Methods.- Formulation of Boundary Integral Equations by the Equivalent Source Method.- Solution of Two-Dimensional Electrostatic and Eddy Current Problems Based on BEM for Modelling of Interconnects on Multichip Modules.- Boundary Element Singularities in 3D Magnetostatic Problems Based on the Vector Potential.- Numerical Solution of Boundary Integral Equation Formulations for Electromagnetic Scattering Problems.- The Study of Three-Dimensional Magnetic Problem Using Direct Integration on Time of the Fundamental Solution.- Boundary Element Simulation of Eddy Current Inspection.- Section 4: Cathodic Protection.- Optimum Design of Cathodic Protection System by 3-D BEM.- A Numerical Model Coupling Galvanic Corrosion and Ohmic Voltage Drop in Buried Pipelines.- Boundary Element Evaluation of ICCP Systems Under Simulated Service Conditions.- Cathodic Protection of a Well Casing in a Layered Formation.- Section 5: Heat Transfer.- Automated Solution of an Inverse Heat Conduction Problem for the Nondestructive Detection of Subsurface Cavities Using Boundary Elements.- CVBEM Solution of Nonlinear Heat Conduction Problems.- Solution of Stefan Problems by a Boundary Element Method.- Section 6: Acoustics.- Boundary Element Analysis of Acoustic Radiation and Scattering in Half Space Using a Generalized Green's Function.- A Choice of Practical Approaches to Overcome the Nonuniqueness Problem of the BEM in Acoustic Radiation and Scattering.- SuperCHIEF: A Modified CHIEF Method.- The Asymptotic Analysis of a Two-Level System of Boundary Integral Equations for Structural-Acoustic Coupling Problems.- Section 7: Stress Analysis Applications.- Combining Photoelasticity and BEM for Stress Analysis.- Boundary-Finite Element Model for Eccentrically StiffenedPlates Under Transverse Loading.- A Boundary Element Method for Plate-Bending Problems and Its Asymptotic Error Estimates.- Reissner/Mindlin's Plate Models and the Boundary Element Method.- Section 8: Damage Mechanics.- Dual Boundary Element Incremental Analysis of Crack Growth in Rotating Disc.- Application of Damage Mechanics Concepts to the Boundary Element Method.- The Effective Use and Accuracy of BEASY'S Discontinuous Boundary Elements for Fracture Mechanics Analysis.- Section 9: Vibration Problems.- The Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method for the Transient Dynamic Analysis of Elastoplastic Problems.- Seismic Response of Multilayered Medium by Integral Equation Method.- Section 10: New Formulations.- The Boundary Element Method with Singular Shape Functions.- Complex Variable Boundary Element Method Error Analysis Using Taylor Series.- Solution of Inverse Problems by Using the Boundary Element Method.- A Collocation Expansion Approach to the Boundary Integral Method.- Using Adaptive Frequency Sampling for More Efficient Determination of Broad Band Transfer Functions.- Application of Tangent Derivative Boundary Integral Equations to the Solution of Elastostatic Problems.- Solution of a Class of Sturm-Liouville Problems Using the Galerkin Method with Global Basis Functions.- Section 11: Computational Aspects.- The Importance of Diagonal Dominance in Iterative Equation Solving for Boundary Element Systems of Equations.- A Cauchy Integral Element Method for Boundary Singularties.- Alternative Formulations of The Laplace Transform Boundary Element (LTBE) Numerical Method for the Solution of Diffusion-Type Equations.- Quadratic H-Hierarchical Adaptive Boundary Elements.- Simulation of Charge Transport in a Distributed Computing Environment.- Simulation ofMicrostructure Evolution on High-Performance Parallel Computer Architectures: Communication Scheduling Strategies for CDL-BIEM.- Section 12: Error And Convergence.- Feasible Error Estimates in Boundary Element Methods.- Numerical Results for h- and p- Convergences for the Modified Local Green's Function Method.- An Approach to H-Adaptive Boundary Element Method Using Local Reanalysis.- An Optimal Adaptative Numerical Integration Method.- Error Analysis of Boundary Element Solutions for Free-Surface Flows.- T. T. Al-Shemmer.- Authors' Index.