A sinh transformation for evaluating nearly singular boundary element integrals

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 564-578

  Johnston, Peter R ^a   Elliott, David ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Nearly singular integrals; Non linear co ordinate transformation; Numerical integration; Sinh function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT INTEGRALS; GAUSSIAN QUADRATURE; POLYNOMIAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SINH TRANSFORMATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 12444269012     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1208     Document Type: Article

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