E-raamat: Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXVI

The 44 papers on reducing the mesh in engineering analysis cover acoustic problems, advanced meshless methods, the boundary knot method, dual boundary element techniques, fracture and crack propagation, fundamental solutions methods, heat transfer, hybrid methods, integration techniques, multipole boundary element methods, structural problems, transient response methods, and advanced numerical solvers. Among specific topics are boundary element approaches for the acoustic computation of perforated silencers, integral equation formulations in two-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetoelectroelastic media, a time domain boundary element method for transient dynamic straight cracks in piezoelectric solids, the thermal stress analysis of functionally graded material structures using analytical expressions in radial integration boundary element method, and a general algorithm for the numerical evaluation of nearly singular integrals over high-order geometry elements in three-dimensional boundary element methods. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Conference on Boundary Elements and Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM) is recognised as the international forum for the latest advances in these techniques and their applications in science and engineering.Launched in 1978 the Conference continues to attract original contributions and has become the forum for their rapid dissemination throughout the international scientific community. Practically all new boundary element ideas have first appeared in the proceedings of these meetings.The vitality of Boundary Element research is mainly due to its ability to evolve. This evolution has developed a whole range of Mesh Reduction Methods, which have now reached a point where BEM is seen as a sub-set of them. Chinese researchers in particular have made major contributions to MRM which this Conference hopes to highlight.The importance of research carried out in China led to the organisation of this Conference, which sets the basis for a closer collaboration of scientists from other countries with their Chinese colleagues. Such cooperation will lead to new research directions and advanced collaboration at an international level.Papers presented at the 36th Conference, contained in this volume, cover topics such as Integration techniques; Green functions; Advanced numerical solvers; Hybrid methods; Advanced meshless methods; Probabilistic BEM; Dual boundary element techniques; Galerkin boundary element; Trefftz methods; Collocation technique; Biologically inspired methods; Free surface techniques; Fluid flow; Stress analysis; Fracture and crack propagation.