Recent Advances in Boundary Element Methods

Editorial; Biography of Dimitri Beskos; Stability Analysis of Plates, by M. H. Aliabadi, P.M. Baiz and E.L. Albuquerque; Multi-level Fast Multipole BEM for 3-D Elastodynamics, by Marc Bonnet, Stephanie Chaillat and Jean-Francois Semblat; A Semi-analytical Approach for Boundary Value Problems with Circular Boundaries, by Jeng-Tzong Chen, Ying-Te Lee, and Wei-Ming Lee; The Singular Function Boundary Integral Method for Elliptic Problems with Boundary Singularities, by Evgenia Christodoulou, Christos Xenophontos and Georgios Georgiou; Fast Multipole BEM and Genetic Algorithms for the Design of Foams with Functional-graded Thermal Conductivity, by Marco Dondero, Adrian P. Cisillino, Alexis Rodriguez Carranza and Georgios Stavroulakis; An Integral Equation Formulation of Three-dimensional Inhomogeneity Problems, by C.Y. Dong, F. Xie and E. Pan; Energy Flux across a Corrugated Interface of a Basin Subjected to a Plane Harmonic SH Wave, by Marijan Dravinski; Boundary Integral Equations and Fluid-structure Interaction at the Micro Scale, by Attilio Frangi; A 2D Time-domain BEM for Dynamic Crack Problems in Anisotropic Solids, by F. Garcia-Sanchez, Ch. Zhang, J. Sladek and V. Sladek; Simulation of Elastic Scattering with a Coupled FMBE-FE Approach, by Lothar Gaul, Dominik Brunner and Michael Junge; An Application of the BEM Numerical Green's Function Procedure to Study Cracks in Reissner's Plates, by S. Guimaraes and J.C.F. Telles; General Approaches for Formulating the Only-Weakly-Singular BIEs: For Tractions and Displacements in Elasticity, and for the Potential and its Gradients in Acoustics, by Z. D. Han and S. N. Atluri; Dynamic Inelastic Analysis with BEM: Results and Needs, by George D. Hatzigeorgiou; Quantifier-free Formulae for Inequality Constraints inside Boundary Elements, by Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis; Matrix Decomposition Algorithms Related to the MFS for Axisymmetric Problems, by Andreas Karageorghis and Yiorgos-Sokratis Smyrlis; Boundary Element Analysis of Gradient Elasticity Problems, by G. F. Karlis, S. V. Tsinopoulos and D. Polyzos; The Fractional Diffusion-wave Equation in Bounded Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media. An AEM Solution, by John T. Katsikadelis; Efficient Solution for Composites Reinforced by Particles, by Vladimir Kompis, Mario Stiavnicky and Quing-Hua Qin; Development of the Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method for Acoustic Wave Problems, by Yijun Liu, Liang Shen and Milind Bapat; Some Issues on Formulations for Inhomogeneous Poroelastic Media, by George D. Manolis; Axisymmetric Acoustic Modeling by Time-domain Boundary Element Techniques, by Webe Joao Mansur, Arnaldo Warszawski and Delfim Soares Jr.; Fluid-structure Interaction by a Duhamel BEM/FEM Coupling; Andre Pereira and Gernot Beer; BEM Solution of Creep Fracture Problems using Strain Energy Density Rate Concept, by C.P. Providakis; MFS with RBF for Thin Plate Bending Problems on Elastic Foundation, by Qing-Hua Qin, Hui Wang and V. Kompis; Time Domain B-spline BEM Methods for Wave Propagation in 3-D Solids and Fluids including Dynamic Interaction Effects of Coupled Media , by Dimitris C. Rizos; A BEM Solution to the Nonlinear Inelastic Uniform Torsion Problem of Composite Bars, by Evangelos J. Sapountzakis and Vasileios J. Tsipiras; Time-domain BEM: Numerical Aspects of Collocation and Galerkin Formulations, by Martin Schanz, Thomas Ruberg and Lars Kielhorn; Some Investigations of Fast Multi-pole BEM in Solid Mechanics, by Zhenhan Yao; Thermomechanical Interfacial Crack Closure: A BEM Approach, by Georgios I. Giannopoulos, Loukas K. Keppas and Nick K. Anifantis; Author Index; Subject Index.