The burton and miller method: Unlocking another mystery of its coupling parameter

Journal of Computational Acoustics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Marburg, Steffen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

boundary element method; Burton and Miller method; coupling parameter; harmonic time dependence; Helmholtz equation; Kirchhoff Helmholtz integral equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937803123     PISSN: 0218396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218396X15500162     Document Type: Article

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