Contains 81 papers from a September 1997 conference, reporting on recent developments in boundary element methods with applications in such fields as acoustics, electrical engineering, fluid mechanics, fracture mechanics, and thermal problems. Papers are divided into 16 sections on areas such as computational aspects, stress analysis, contact mechanics, structural dynamics, plate bending, inelastic problems, sensitivity analysis and optimization, electrical and electromagnetic problems, high performance computing and parallelization, numerical integration, and industrial applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
