Boundary Elements Technology

by Chen, C. S.; Brebbia, C. A.; Pepper, D.

• ISBN13: 9781853126888
• ISBN10: 1853126888
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics

Table of Contents

Application of BEM to determine particle trajectories close to a pore of a porous surface under Stokes flow	p. 3
Simulation of the nonlinear dynamics of charged liquids using boundary element methods	p. 13
Boundary element analysis of the productivity of complex petroleum well configurations	p. 25
Radioactive contaminant transport in fractured porous media: an analytical solution	p. 35
Use of electric analogy for the determination of the soil permeability from field tests	p. 43
A boundary element method for indoor air quality simulation	p. 53
A BEM-based inverse algorithm to retrieve multi-dimensional heat transfer coefficients from transient temperature measurements	p. 65
DRBEM solution of natural convection in porous media: Darcy, Forchheimer and Brinkman models	p. 75
Shape optimization of composites using the BEM	p. 89
A finite element-boundary element method for advection-diffusion problems with variable advective fields and infinite domains	p. 99
Shape optimization of shaft with variable diameter by boundary element method	p. 119
Optimal design of cavitating hydrofoils by genetic algorithms	p. 129
Two short-cut determination methods to calculate stress intensity factor	p. 141
Application of complex variables boundary element method to modeling borehole stresses in anistropic stress field in non-linear rocks	p. 151
Analysis of 2D crack using symmetric Galerkin boundary element method	p. 163
The use of BEM for analysis of effects caused by acoustic transients in urban areas	p. 175
Calculation of transient wave propagation problems in semi-infinite media by BEM in the frequency domain	p. 185
2D time domain boundary element direct and indirect formulation applied to soil dynamics	p. 195
Decay properties for solutions for some damped wave equations	p. 205
The dipole approximation method and its coupling with the regular boundary element method for efficient electrical impedance tomography	p. 217
Approximate solution for electron wave transport systems with point-like obstacles	p. 227
On practical modifications to the Barnes-Hut multipole method for electromagnetic scattering	p. 237
Analysis of a new concept in spline design for transmission output shafts	p. 247
Investigating ICCP system design of ship with waterjet propulsion using boundary element technology	p. 257
Two dimensional analysis of a drive sprocket mounting to a shaft using boundary element methods	p. 267
Forensic investigation of failed precast concrete tunnel segments through field performance monitoring and boundary element analysis	p. 275
On the numerical solution of differential equations with radial basis functions	p. 291
Numerical computations for damage of elastic materials	p. 301
Using compactly supported radial basis functions to solve partial differential equations	p. 311
Radial basis approximation functions in the boundary element dual reciprocity method	p. 325
A simple remark on the order of approximation by compactly supported radial basis functions and related networks	p. 335
RBF and optimal stopping problems: an application to the pricing of vanilla options on one risky asset	p. 345
Radial basis functions with compactly support and multizone decomposition: applications to environmental modelling	p. 355
Smoothing and interpolation with radial basis functions	p. 365
The method of fundamental solutions for time-dependent problems	p. 377
The method of fundamental solutions for axisymmetric problems	p. 387
Computation of optimal Bayesian credible sets for the binomial and Poisson distributions	p. 397
Solving the Liouville equation with the general boundary element approach	p. 407
Vector interpolation for time alignment in speech recognition	p. 417
Analysis of three-dimensional potential problems using the complex variable boundary element method	p. 423
Determination of the optimal mixture distribution	p. 429
An efficient multilevel master-slave model for distributed parallel computation	p. 439
Minimizing some of the mesh errors in boundary element method	p. 449
Incremental improvements to the Telles third degree polynomial transformation for the evaluation of nearly singular boundary integrals	p. 459
Issues related to interface calculations in the boundary element method	p. 475
An h-adaptive boundary element method for fracture mechanics	p. 485
Multiquadratic methods in the numerical treatment of the integro-differential equations of collective non-ruin; the finite time case	p. 495
Elastic equilibrium of a semi-strip undergoing a point body force	p. 505
Experimental validation of a fracture plane model for multiaxial cyclic loading	p. 519
Optimal numerical analysis of branched cracks in biaxial stress fields	p. 529
Probabilistic predictions of fatigue crack behaviour	p. 539
Preliminary high-temperature plastic deformations and fatigue resistance of titanium alloy	p. 549
Fatigue crack propagation under different types of random loading	p. 559
Tension of an infinite solid containing a doubly-periodic array of slant cracks	p. 567
Effect of thermomechanical coupling on localized damage of concrete	p. 577
3D-simulation of ductile crack growth	p. 587
Influence of localised damage around crack tip on fracture propagation	p. 597
In-plane shear of an infinite solid containing a doubly-periodic array of slant cracks	p. 609
Simulation of geotechnical processes using coupled modeling	p. 619
Limit states of deformations of shock wave loaded viscoplastic structures	p. 629
Modeling the effects of luggage on blast loadings from internal explosive detonation	p. 639
Simulation of induction quenching process and verification of finite element model	p. 651
Testing of fiberglass composite bridge deck panels	p. 663
Volumetric corrosion measurement evaluation	p. 673
Reevaluation of irradiation embrittlement of the surveillance specimens by samples reconstitution	p. 683
Wear reduction on working surface of railway wheels	p. 693
Author index	p. 703
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