Boundary Elements VIII, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 1986
Boundary Elements Series, Vol. 8

The International Conference on Boundary Element Methods in Engineering was started in 1978 with the following objectives: i) To act as a focus for BE research at a time when the technique wasjust emerging as a powerful tool for engineering analysis. ii) To attract new as weIl as established researchers on Boundary Elements, in order to maintain its vitality and originality. iii) To try to relate the Boundary Element Method to other engineering techniques in an effort to help unify the field of engineering analysis, rather than to contribute to its fragmentation. These objectives were achieved during the last 7 conferences and this meeting - the eighth - has continued to be as innovative and dynamic as any ofthe previous conferences. Another important aim ofthe conference is to encourage the participation of researchers from as many different countries as possible and in this regard it is a policy of the organizers to hold the conference in different locations. It is easy to forget when working on scientific projects that in science as weIl as in other subjects, human relationships are as important as mathematical equations. Science progresses not only as a resuIt oflaboratory and computer experiments or abstract thinking but also by a process of personal interaction.

Section IX Hydrodynamics.- A Hybrid Integral Equation Method for Evaluating Hydrodynamic Interaction Between Several Floating Bodies in Waves.- Analysis of Structure — Fluid Dynamic Interaction Problems by Boundary Integral Equation Methods.- Nonlinear Wave Transformation.- Section X Nonlinear Structural Problems.- Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Shallow Spherical Shell Using an Integral Equation Method.- Elastic Buckling Analysis of Assembled Plate Structures by Boundary Element Method.- An Alternative Boundary Element Analysis of Plates Resting on Elastic Foundation.- Section XI Nonlinear Material Problems.- Application of BEM to Calculation of the Work Roll Deformation and Residual Stress in the Rolled Sheet.- Section XII Computational Aspects.- An Adaptive Indirect Boundary Element Method with Applications.- New Developments in the BEASY Boundary Element Analysis System.- Interactive Laplace’s Equation Analyzing System ILAS.- A Large System BEAP-II of Boundary Element Analysis with Sparse Algorithm.- Section XIII Numerical And Mathematical Aspects.- Mixed Methods in BEM for Elasto-Plastic Problems.- Special Shape Functions in Boundary Integral Method.- A New Approach to Singular Kernel Integration for General Curved Elements.- Application of the Cauchy Integral to the Displacement Discontinuity Method.- A System of Boundary Integral Equations for the Problem of Acoustic Scattering by an Absorbing Wall.- On the Numerical Implementation of BEM for Axisymmetric Elasticity.- An Indirect Boundary Element Method in the Solution of the Diffusion Equation.- The Usefulness and the Limit of Direct Regular Method in Boundary Element Elastostatic Analysis.- Stability Experiment of FDM, FEM and BEM in Convective Diffusion.- Boundary Element Modelling of DilatantInterfaces.- Optimum Positions for the Nodes in Discontinuous Boundary Elements.- Section XIV Fluid Mechanics.- Three-Dimensional Analysis of Potential Flow in a Centrifugal Impeller by Panel Method.- Free Surface Stokes Flow Over an Obstacle.- Characteristics Incorporated Boundary Element for One-Dimensional Convective Diffusion Problem.- Integral Equation Analysis of Laminar Natural Convection Problems.- Numerical Simulations for Incompressible Viscous Flow Problems Using the Integral Equation Methods.- The Boundary Element Spectral Method and Applications in 3-D Viscous Hydrodynamics.- Vorticity — Velocity — Pressure Boundary Integral Formulation.- Boundary Elements Applied to Laminar Flow in Irregular Ducts.- Application of Boundary Element Method in Transient Flow Problems with Moving Boundaries.- Numerical Simulation of Separated Flow by Discrete Vortex Method.- Analyses of Fresh — Salt Water Interface in Coastal Aquifers.- Three-Dimensional Simulation of Hydro-Mass Transportation in Nearly Closed Basins.- Section XV Groundwater Flow.- Computation of the Fluid Flow in Zoned Anisotropic Porous Media and Determination of the Free Surface Seepage.- Extra Paper.- The Calculation of Transient Eddy Currents by Means of the Boundary Element Method.