Boundary elements continues to widen its fields of application in science and engineering, and researchers have been continuously drawn to this numerical technique. This volume contains most of the papers presented at the BETECH 96 Conference, held in Hawaii and covers the subjects areas of Fluid Mechanics; Heat Transfer, Fracture Mechanics, Stress Analysis, Optimization and Sensitivity, Basic Principles and Mathematical Aspects, Cathodic Protection, and Computational Aspects. The book will be of interest to scientists and engineers involved with the theory and application of numerical techniques of analysis.
Professor Carlos Brebbia is the founder of the Wessex Institute of Technology, a postgraduate research centre. He was born in Argentina & has a PhD from Southampton University in England. He worked in research and academia in England and the U.S., in the field of engineering, before founding the Wessex Institute.