This book/CD-ROM tutorial for researchers, engineers, and graduate students covers basic principles of boundary element methods in acoustics and shows how to construct computer codes for problems in the field. Chapters cover fundamentals of linear acoustics, the Helmholtz integral equation, two- and three-dimensional problems, the normal derivative integration equations, and the indirect variational boundary element method in acoustics. Other topics are acoustic eigenvalue analysis by boundary element methods, time domain three-dimensional analysis, and extended Kirchhoff integral formulations. The CD-ROM provides FORTRAN codes. Lacks a subject index. Wu teaches mechanical engineering at the University of Kentucky. Distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
