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The complex variable boundary element method: Applications

T. V. Hromadka·C.C. Yen·G. L. Guymon
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The complex variable boundary element method (CVBEM) is used to approximate several potential problems where analytical solutions are known: A modelling result produced from the CVBEM is a measure of relative error in matching the known boundary condition values of the problem. A CVBEM error-reduction algorithm is used to reduce the relative error of the approximation by adding nodal points in boundary regions where error is large. From the-test problems, overall error is reduced significantly by utilizing the adaptive integration algorithm.

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T. V. Hromadka, C.C. Yen, G. L. Guymon. 2005-06-21. The complex variable boundary element method: Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.1620210604

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