A sinh transformation for evaluating two-dimensional nearly singular boundary element integrals

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1460-1479

  Johnston, Barbara M ^a   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

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT INTEGRALS; LAPLACE EQUATION; SINH TRANSFORMATION;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 33846848073     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1816     Document Type: Article

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