Yaoming Zhang1, Yan Gu1, Jeng-Tzong Chen2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.50, No.1, pp. 1-20, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.050.001
Abstract There exist nearly singular integrals for thin walled structures in the boundary element method (BEM). In this paper, an efficient analytical method is developed to deal with the nearly singular integrals in the boundary integral equations (BIEs) for 2-D thin walled structures. The developed method is possible for problems defined in high-order geometry elements when the nearly singular integrals need to be calculated. For the analysis of nearly singular integrals with high-order geometry elements, much fewer boundary elements can be used to achieve higher accuracy. More importantly, computational models of thin walled structures or thin More >