A Beginner's Course in Boundary Element Methods - Softcover

Ang, Whye-Teong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581129742 ISBN 13: 9781581129748

Publisher: Universal Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

This is a course in boundary element methods for the absolute beginners. Basic concepts are carefully explained through the use of progressively more complicated boundary value problems in engineering and physical sciences. The readers are assumed to have prior basic knowledge of vector calculus (covering topics such as line, surface and volume integrals and the various integral theorems), ordinary and partial differential equations, complex variables, and computer programming.

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Taken from the first paragraph in the preface:

During the last few decades, the boundary element method, also known as the boundary integral equation method or boundary integral method, has gradually evolved to become one of the few widely used numerical techniques for solving boundary value problems in engineering and physical sciences. In implementing the method, only the boundary of the solution domain has to be discretized into elements. In the case of a two-dimensional problem, this is really easy to do. Put closely packed points on the boundary (a curve) and join up two consecutive neighboring points to form straight line elements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Universal Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581129742
• ISBN 13: 9781581129748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254