Fabian M. E. Duddeck1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.16, No.1, pp. 1-14, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.016.001
Abstract In general, the use of Boundary Element Methods (BEM) is restricted to physical cases for which a fundamental solution can be obtained. For simple differential operators (e.g. isotropic elasticity) these special solutions are known in their explicit form. Hence, the realization of the BEM is straight forward. For more complicated problems (e.g. anisotropic materials), we can only construct the fundamental solution numerically. This is normally done before the actual problem is tackled; the values of the fundamental solutions are stored in a table and all values needed later are interpolated from these entries. The drawbacks… More >