Presents applications of the boundary element method (BEM) to industrial problems that involve the coupling of thermal, stress, and fluid flow fields. The seven chapters illustrate the trend in computational mechanics to employ a variety of solvers, each best suited for the task at hand, in order to tackle coupled multi-phenomena problems encountered in engineering analysis and design. Topics include modeling of the glass manufacturing process, a coupled FVM/BEM approach to conjugate heat transfer, aero- thermal-elastic concurrent design optimization for internally cooled turbine blades, and dual boundary element formulations for steady state and transient thermoelastic fracture mechanics. No index. Distributed by Computational Mechanics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
