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The Boundary Element Method

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. W. S. Hall

    1. University of Teesside, School of Computing and Mathematics, Middlesborough, Cleveland, UK

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Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 27)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Ordinary Integral Equations

    • W. S. Hall
    Pages 1-38

  3. Two Dimensional Potential Problems

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    Pages 39-59

  4. Boundary Element Method

    • W. S. Hall
    Pages 61-83

  5. Linear Isoparametric Solution

    • W. S. Hall
    Pages 85-119

  6. Quadratic Isoparametric Solution

    • W. S. Hall
    Pages 121-139

  7. Three Dimensional Potential Problems

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    Pages 141-160

  8. Numerical Integration for Three Dimensional Problems

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    Pages 161-175

  9. Two-Dimensional Elastostatics

    • W. S. Hall
    Pages 177-207

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 208-230
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The Boundary Element Method is a simple, efficient and cost effective computational technique which provides numerical solutions - for objects of any shap- for a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. In dealing with the development of the mathematics of the Boundary Element Method the aim has been at every stage, only to present new material when sufficient experience and practice of simpler material has been gained. Since the usual background of many readers will be of differential equations, the connection of differential equations with integral equations is explained in Chapter 1, together with analytical and numerical methods of solution. This information on integral equations provides a base for the work of subsequent chapters. The mathematical formulation of boundary integral equations for potential problems - derived from the more familiar Laplace partial differential equation which governs many important physical problems - is set out in Chapter 2. It should be noted here that this initial formulation of the boundary integral equations reduces the dimensionality of the problem. In the key Chapter 3, the essentials of the Boundary Element Method are presented. This first presentation of the Boundary Element Method is in its simplest and most approachable form - two dimensional, with the shape of the boundary approximated by straight lines and the functions approximated by constants over each of the straight lines.

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  • University of Teesside, School of Computing and Mathematics, Middlesborough, Cleveland, UK

    W. S. Hall

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