The Boundary Element Method with Programming

For Engineers and Scientists

Gernot Beer, Ian Smith, Christian Duenser

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Springer Verlag GmbH
08 April 2008

Maths for scientists; Maths for engineers

This is a sequel to the book “Programming the Boundary Element Method” by G. Beer published by Wiley in 2001. The scope of this book is different however and this is reflected in the title. Whereas the previous book concentrated on explaining the implementation of a limited range of problems into computer code and the emphasis was on programming, in the current book the problems covered are extended, the emphasis is on explaining the theory and computer code is not presented for all topics. The new topics covered range from dynamics to piezo-electricity. However, the main idea, to provide an explanation of the Boundary Element Method (BEM), that is easy for engineers and scientists to follow, is retained. This is achieved by explaining some aspects of the method in an engineering rather than mathematical way. Another new feature of the book is that it deals with the implementation of the method on parallel processing hardware. I. M. Smith, who has been involved in programming the finite element method for decades, illustrates that the BEM is “embarrassingly parallelisable”. It is shown that the conversion of the BEM programs to run efficiently on parallel processing hardware is not too difficult and the results are very impressive, such as solving a 20 000 element problem during a “coffee break”.

By: Gernot Beer, Ian Smith, Christian Duenser
Imprint: Springer Verlag GmbH
Country of Publication: Austria
Edition: 2008 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.062kg
ISBN: 9783211715741
ISBN 10: 3211715746
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 08 April 2008
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preliminaries.- Programming.- Discretisation and Interpolation.- Material Modelling and Fundamental Solutions.- Boundary Integral Equations.- Boundary Element Methods — Numerical Implementation.- Assembly and Solution.- Element-by-element techniques and Parallel Programming.- Postprocessing.- Test Examples.- Multiple regions.- Dealing with corners and changing geometry.- Body Forces.- Dynamic Analysis.- Nonlinear Problems.- Coupled Boundary Element/Finite Element Analysis.- Industrial Applications.- Advanced topics.

Gernot Beer is Professor and head of the Institute for Structural Analysis at the Graz University of Technology. He has been involved in the development, teaching and application of the BEM and the coupled BEM/FEM and has written several texts on the subject. He is the author of the commercial program BEFE and heads the development of its successor BEFE++. Ian M. Smith is Professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester. He has consulted widely on engineering projects and has written several texts on applied numerical analysis. Christian Dunser is staff scientist at the Institute for Structural Analysis at the Graz University of Technology. Since his diploma thesis he has been working on the BEM and its application to geotechnical problems, in particular tunnelling.