BEM now competes with other popular methods such as finite differences and finite elements in solving problems in elasticity, heat transfer, corrosion, and electromagnetics, among other applications. This volume presents 66 papers from the 20th conference, held August 1998, which comprised a joint meeting of the largely theoretical boundary element methods (BEM) conference series and the more practically oriented boundary element technology (BETECH) series, thus blending both aspects. Papers address the fields of accoustics, fracture mechanics, heat transfer, fluid flow, elasticity, stress analysis, dynamic analysis, electromagnetics and electrochemical processes, and plates and shells. The book also includes recent advances in general computational techniques of BEM, development of fundamental solutions, and application to inverse problems. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.