Boundary Element Methods in Engineering and Sciences

by Marily Schlitz, Pihua Wen, Aliabadi

Overview

The boundary element method (BEM), also known as the boundary integral equation method (BIEM), is a modern numerical technique which has enjoyed increasing popularity over the past two decades. It is now an established alternative to traditional computational methods of engineering analysis. The main advantage of the BEM is its unique ability to provide a complete solution in terms of boundary values only, with substantial savings in modeling effort.This book is designed to provide readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the method and its application to problems in engineering and science. Each chapter provides a brief description of historical development, followed by basic theory, derivation and examples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848165793
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	10/29/2010
Series:	Computational And Experimental Methods In Structures Series
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

1 The Boundary Element Method for Geometrically Non-Linear Analyses of Plates and Shells P.H. Wen T. Dirgantara P.M. Baiz M.H. Aliabadi 1

2 Time-Domain BEM Techniques W.J Mansur J.A.M. Carrer P.E. Oyarzún 51

3 The Boundary Element Method for the Fracture Analysis of the General Piezoelectric Solids M. Denda 79

4 Boundary Integral Analysis for Three-Dimensional Exponentially Graded Elasticity J.E. Ortiz V. Mantic L.J. Gray Nintcheu Fata O. Sallah 113

5 Fast Hierarchical Boundary Element Method for Large-Scale 3-D Elastic Problems I. Benedetti A. Milazzo M.H. Aliabadi 145

6 Modelling of Plates and Shallow Shells by Meshless Local Integral Equation Method J. Sladek V. Sladek P.H. Wen Ch. Zhang 197

7 Boundary Element Technique for Slow Viscous Flows About Particles A. Sellier 239

8 BIT for Free Surface Flows G. Baker 283

9 Simulation of Cavitating and Free Surface Flows and BEM Spyros A. Kinnas 323

10 Condition Numbers and Local Errors in the Boundary Element Method W. Dijkstra G. Kakuba R.M.M. Mattheij 365