BOUNDARY ELEMENTS Theory and Applications
BOUNDARY ELEMENTS Theory and Applications
BOUNDARY ELEMENTS Theory and Applications Book By J. T. Katsikadelis
Although the BEM is taught as a regular course at an ever increasing number of
universities, there is a noticeable lack of a textbook which could help students as
well as professional engineers to understand the method, the underlying theory and
its application to engineering problems. An essential reason is that BEM courses
are taught mainly as advanced graduate courses, and therefore much of the under-
lying fundamental knowledge of mathematics and mechanics is not covered in the
respective undergraduate courses. Thus, the existing books on BEM are addressed
rather to academia and researchers who, somehow, have already been exposed to
the BEM than to students following a BEM course for the first time and engineers
who are using boundary element software in industry.