Contains 37 contributions from scientists and engineers which discuss the application of boundary element methods to heat transfer, electrical problems, acoustics, fluid and fluid structure interaction, and soil structure interaction; as well as numerical techniques, industrial applications, dual reciprocity method, and potential problems. Topics include a new algorithm for modeling coal seam sounding curves; an iterative dual reciprocity boundary element method to solve Poisson's equation without the need of assembling a matrix; foundations of a new BEM algorithm called Domain Integral Reduction (DIRA); bolted component corrosion simulations using the BEASY code; computations of hydrodynamic characteristics of the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV); and a GEM-FEM study of hydrodynamic pressures arising from fluid-structure interaction in a reservoir impounded by a dam. Distributed in North America by Computational Mechanics, Inc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)