Selected Topics in Boundary Integral Formulations for Solids and Fluids
Invited Lecturers
- Abhijt Chandra (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)
- 5 lectures on: Review of BE formulations for material and geometric non-linearities. Design sensitivity for materially non-linear problems. Application of BEM to metal forming problems. Thermal aspects of machining problems conduction-convection. Damage in grinding applications. A hybrid micro-macro BE formulation.
- Lothar Gaul (Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
- 6 lectures on: Boundary elements (BE) for transient viscoelastic solids. Non-singular hybrid BE for 3D elastostatics and elastodynamics. Multi-domain FEM-BEM simulation of noise radiation from rolling tires. Hybrid displacement and hybrid stress BEM in frequency and time domain. Combination of conventional and hybrid BEM. Sound energy flow in acoustic near field of a vibrating structure. Dual reciprocity BEM for 3D problems in dynamic piezoelectricity.
- Vladimir Kompis (University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia)
- 6 lectures on: Non-singular (Trefftz polynomial - TP) multi-domain (MD) BEM in linear and non-linear solid mechanics (total Lagrangian formulation) and in fluid mechanics. Stress smoothing in MD formulations and regularization of singular integrals using TP.
- Subrata Mukherjee (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA)
- 6 lectures on: The boundary contour and boundary node methods including their hypersingular versions for linear elasticity and potential theory. Moving least squares interpolants. Sensitivity analysis, shape optimization, error analysis and adaptivity.
- Giorgio Novati (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy)
- 6 lectures on: Variational boundary contour method with Trefftz interpolation. Symmetric Galerkin BEM in 3D elasticity: computational aspects and applications to fracture mechanics.
- Bozidar Sarler (Nova Gorica Polytechnic , Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
- 6 lectures on: BEM for Stefan problems. Dual Reciprocity (DR) BEM for coupled heat, mass, momentum and solute transfer in solid-liquid systems. Solution of industrial phenomena by the DR BEM: DC casting of aluminium alloys, continuous casting of steel.