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31 Citations
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3 January 2020

This paper presents a numerical method and computational results for acoustic noise of electromagnetic origin generated by an induction motor. The computation of noise incorporates three levels of numerical calculation steps, combining both the finit...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,513 Views
12 Pages

5 February 2023

The problem of non-unique solutions at fictitious frequencies that can appear in the boundary element method for external acoustic phenomena described by the Helmholtz equation is studied. We propose a method to fully desingularise in an analytical w...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,538 Views
24 Pages

Shape Optimisation of Assembled Plate Structures with the Boundary Element Method

  • Llewellyn Morse,
  • Vincenzo Mallardo,
  • Zahra Sharif-Khodaei and
  • Ferri M.H. Aliabadi

A novel methodology is presented for performing sensitivity analyses of assembled plate structures using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The main novelty of this work is that the exact implicit derivatives of the BEM formulations for assembled pla...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,321 Views
10 Pages

An Acoustic Simulation Method of the Japanese Vowels /i/ and /u/ by Using the Boundary Element Method

  • Mami Shiraishi,
  • Katsuaki Mishima,
  • Masahiro Takekawa,
  • Masaaki Mori and
  • Hirotsugu Umeda

6 June 2023

This study aimed to establish and verify the validity of an acoustic simulation method during sustained phonation of the Japanese vowels /i/ and /u/. The study participants were six healthy adults. First, vocal tract models were constructed based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,793 Views
30 Pages

19 June 2021

A unified discretization framework, based on the concept of augmented dual grids, is proposed for devising hybrid formulations which combine the Cell Method and the Boundary Element Method for static and quasi-static electromagnetic field problems. I...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,362 Views
11 Pages

27 February 2019

The balanced armature receiver (BAR) is a product based on multiphysics that enables coupling between the electromagnetic, mechanical, and acoustic domains. The three domains were modeled using the lumped parameter method (LPM) that takes advantage o...

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  • Open Access
543 Views
23 Pages

20 November 2025

A novel methodology is proposed for accelerating the calculation efficiency of the boundary element modeling of rolling contact. This methodology involves the implementation of an initial solution estimate. The method is to provide the initial estima...

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  • Open Access
886 Views
33 Pages

12 November 2025

Toroidal propellers have emerged as a promising substitute for next-generation marine propulsors due to their potential advantages in hydrodynamic efficiency and noise control. This article presents a hydrodynamic analysis of toroidal propellers usin...

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  • Open Access
1,419 Views
11 Pages

25 July 2023

Mathematical models of fracture physics and mechanics are boundary value problems for differential equations and systems of equations with a singularity. There are two classes of problems with a singularity: with coordinated and uncoordinated degener...

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  • Open Access
1,197 Views
25 Pages

11 December 2024

For problems with very fine surface meshes, typically the most time-consuming step of a boundary element method (BEM, also called a panel method) is solving the final linear system of equations. Many have already studied how to efficiently solve the...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,757 Views
19 Pages

Contact problems are among the most difficult issues in mathematics and are of crucial practical importance in engineering applications. This paper presents a scaled boundary finite-element method with B-differentiable equations for 3D frictional con...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,737 Views
16 Pages

Functionally Graded Plate Fracture Analysis Using the Field Boundary Element Method

  • Simone Palladino,
  • Luca Esposito,
  • Paolo Ferla,
  • Renato Zona and
  • Vincenzo Minutolo

12 September 2021

This paper describes the Field Boundary Element Method (FBEM) applied to the fracture analysis of a 2D rectangular plate made of Functionally Graded Material (FGM) to calculate Mode I Stress Intensity Factor (SIF). The case study of this Field Bounda...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,057 Views
15 Pages

Boundary Element Method for Tangential Contact of a Coated Elastic Half-Space

  • Henning Burger,
  • Fabian Forsbach and
  • Valentin L. Popov

We present a formulation of the boundary element method (BEM) for simulating the tangential contact with an elastic half-space coated with an elastic layer with different elastic properties. We use the fast Fourier-transform-based formulation of BEM,...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,975 Views
17 Pages

Determination of the Effective Elastic Modulus for Nodular Cast Iron Using the Boundary Element Method

  • Adrián Betancur,
  • Carla Anflor,
  • André Pereira and
  • Ricardo Leiderman

15 August 2018

In this work, a multiscale homogenization procedure using the boundary element method (BEM) for modeling a two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) multiphase microstructure is presented. A numerical routine is specially written for modeling n...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,995 Views
12 Pages

Numerical Modeling of the Wave-Plate-Current Interaction by the Boundary Element Method

  • Hasna Akarni,
  • Laila El Aarabi,
  • Laila Mouakkir and
  • Soumia Mordane

1 December 2021

The aim of this work is to propose a numerical study of the interaction of a wave-horizontal plate fixed and completely immersed in a flat-bottomed tank with a uniform current flowing in the same direction as the incident wave. We investigate in part...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,640 Views
19 Pages

1 February 2022

The viscous boundary has a direct influence on the accuracy of structural dynamic response analysis, and the absorbing effect of the viscous boundary is controlled by the adjustment coefficient. Therefore, a calibration model of the viscous boundary&...

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585 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2025

This study extends the calculation of unknown quantities at boundary points to the computation of internal displacements and stresses. The methodological approach is broadly consistent with boundary point calculations. However, the computation of int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,389 Views
24 Pages

A Coupled Finite-Boundary Element Method for Efficient Dynamic Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction Modeling

  • Parham Azhir,
  • Jafar Asgari Marnani,
  • Mehdi Panji and
  • Mohammad Sadegh Rohanimanesh

This paper introduces an innovative approach to numerically model Structure–Soil-Structure Interaction (SSSI) by integrating the Boundary Element Method (BEM) and the Finite Element Method (FEM) in a coupled manner. To assess the accuracy of th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,548 Views
16 Pages

11 December 2022

Herein, we are mainly concerned with the natural boundary element (NBE) method of the uniform transmission line (UTL) equation defined in the two-dimensional (2D) boundless region, which has a real physical background. We first create the time semi-d...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,759 Views
30 Pages

A computational methodology for the hydrodynamic analysis of horizontal axis marine current turbines is presented. The approach is based on a boundary integral equation method for inviscid flows originally developed for marine propellers and adapted...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,831 Views
27 Pages

6 May 2023

Seismic waves propagation with an oblique angle to the tunnel axis will cause asynchronous tunnel motions and have a significant effect on the axial response. A high-precision 2.5D finite element method is established in the frequency domain to simul...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,340 Views
13 Pages

22 May 2024

One-dimensional fourth-order boundary value problems (BVPs) play a critical role in engineering applications, particularly in the analysis of beams. Current numerical investigations primarily concentrate on homogeneous boundary conditions. In additio...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,148 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2022

The analytically time integrable time-space domain (ATI-TSD) is discovered based on which the minimum time-space domain is identified for treatment on singularities in the three-dimensional time-domain boundary element method (3D TD-BEM) formulation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,513 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2020

The Galerkin finite element method (FEM) has long been used to solve groundwater flow equations and compute the mass balance in a region. In this study, we proposed a simple, new computational FEM procedure for global mass balance computations that c...

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7 Citations
2,623 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2022

Fin is an efficient and straightforward way to enhance heat transfer rate. When the heat source varies dramatically in a very short time, non-Fourier heat conduction should be considered. In the paper, taking advantage of numerical stability and no i...

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  • Open Access
1,382 Views
11 Pages

A model of the vocal tract that mimicked velopharyngeal insufficiency was created, and acoustic analysis was performed using the boundary element method to clarify the acoustic characteristics of velopharyngeal insufficiency. The participants were si...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,980 Views
18 Pages

Experimental Prediction Method of Free-Field Sound Emissions Using the Boundary Element Method and Laser Scanning Vibrometry

  • Andreas Wurzinger,
  • Florian Kraxberger,
  • Paul Maurerlehner,
  • Bernhard Mayr-Mittermüller,
  • Peter Rucz,
  • Harald Sima,
  • Manfred Kaltenbacher and
  • Stefan Schoder

3 January 2024

Acoustic emissions play a major role in the usability of many product categories. Therefore, mitigating the emitted sound directly at the source is paramount to improve usability and customer satisfaction. To reliably predict acoustic emissions, nume...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,486 Views
30 Pages

Thermomechanical Optimization of Three-Dimensional Low Heat Generation Microelectronic Packaging Using the Boundary Element Method

  • José Vallepuga-Espinosa,
  • Jaime Cifuentes-Rodríguez,
  • Víctor Gutiérrez-Posada and
  • Iván Ubero-Martínez

2 June 2022

This paper presents a simulation based on the boundary element method for the optimization of the thermomechanical behavior of three-dimensional microchip-dissipator packaging when the heat generation produced is medium-low. Starting from a basic arc...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,067 Views
18 Pages

31 May 2024

Considering the lack of studies on the transient vibro-acoustic properties of conical shell structures, a Jacobi–Ritz boundary element method for forced vibro-acoustic behaviors of structure is proposed based on the Newmark-β integral meth...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,379 Views
31 Pages

24 May 2022

The objective of this work is to innovatively apply the boundary element method (BEM) as a general modeling strategy to deal with complicated reservoir modeling problems, especially those related to reservoir heterogeneity and fracture systems, which...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
956 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2025

Cracks and defects are inevitable during the long-term use of structures. This study focuses on determining the stress intensity factors of multi-cracked structures by using a new fast multipole dual boundary element method. Numerical examples show t...

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1,033 Views
13 Pages

Study on the Seepage Model of Three-Dimensional Vertical Well Based on the Boundary Element Method

  • Jialin Wang,
  • Zongxiao Ren,
  • Xinwei Liu,
  • Jinliang Han,
  • Zhaoyang Fan and
  • Hui Zhao

16 December 2024

As one of the main numerical methods, the boundary element method boasts the advantages of fast computation speed and high accuracy. Based on the considerations of the influence of pressure drop, perforation height, skin coefficient, reservoir coeffi...

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654 Views
16 Pages

Design of a Rat Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coil Based on the Inverse Boundary Element Method

  • Chenyu Zhao,
  • Yun Xu,
  • Lixin Jiao,
  • Linhai Hu,
  • Haoran Lv and
  • Peng Yang

12 November 2025

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique extensively utilized in neuroscience and clinical medicine; however, its underlying mechanisms require further elucidation. Due to ethical safety considerations, low...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,155 Views
15 Pages

This work develops a Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation for simulating bioheat transfer in perfused biological tissues using the Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative in the Caputo sense (ABC). The ABC operator incorporates a nonsingula...

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24 Citations
5,429 Views
19 Pages

29 June 2018

Fracture mechanics is one of the most important approaches to structural safety analysis. Modeling the fracture process zone (FPZ) is critical to understand the nonlinear cracking behavior of heterogeneous quasi-brittle materials such as concrete. In...

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15 Citations
4,491 Views
25 Pages

A Study of Multi-Component Oscillating-Foil Hydrokinetic Turbines with a GPU-Accelerated Boundary Element Method

  • Panagiotis E. Koutsogiannakis,
  • Evangelos S. Filippas and
  • Kostas A. Belibassakis

21 November 2019

A biomimetic semi-activated oscillating-foil device with multiple foils in a parallel configuration is studied for the extraction of marine renewable energy. For the present investigation, an unsteady boundary element method (BEM) is used for the sim...

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5 Citations
3,354 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2020

Because of the complexities associated with the domain geometry and environments, accurate prediction of acoustics propagation and scattering in realistic shallow water environments by direct numerical simulation is challenging. Based on the pre-corr...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,390 Views
26 Pages

15 December 2022

In this research, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by elliptic PDEs with Dirichlet boundary conditions on complex connected domains, which can be utilized to model the cooling process of concrete dam pouring. A new convergence resul...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,175 Views
15 Pages

13 May 2019

Three-dimensional, permeable membrane space sound absorbers have been proposed as practical and economical alternatives to three-dimensional, microperforated panel space sound absorbers. Previously, the sound absorption characteristics of a three-dim...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,987 Views
14 Pages

8 November 2024

This paper investigates the forces generated by axially magnetized ring permanent magnets with trapezoidal cross-sections when placed near a soft magnetic cylinder. Utilizing the Hybrid Boundary Element Method (HBEM), this study models interactions i...

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1 Citations
3,172 Views
19 Pages

7 January 2022

The existence of pores is a very common feature of nature and of human life, but the existence of pores will alter the mechanical properties of the material. Therefore, it is very important to study the impact of different influencing factors on the...

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1 Citations
2,179 Views
33 Pages

10 December 2023

This paper describes, for the first time, the application of an Elastodynamic Boundary Element Method (BEM) in Laplace Domain for the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of poly-crystalline materials. The study focuses on Ultrasonic Guided Wave (UGW)...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,958 Views
15 Pages

In this work, Finite Element Method (FEM) is applied to obtain the condition at the boundary of the interface between a channel and a porous medium. The boundary conditions that should be applied to the inhomogeneous interface zone between the two ho...

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1,723 Views
29 Pages

11 September 2023

To efficiently address the challenge of thermoelastic coupling in functionally graded materials, we propose an approach that combines the radial integral boundary element method (RIBEM) with proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). This integration est...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,427 Views
14 Pages

22 July 2024

When the time-dependent boundary element method, also termed the pseudo-initial condition method, is employed for solving transient heat conduction problems, the numerical evaluation of domain integrals is necessitated. Consequently, the accurate cal...

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1,198 Views
16 Pages

10 August 2025

Rapid urbanization and climate change have intensified urban flood risks, necessitating resilient upstream infrastructure to ensure metropolitan water security and effective flood mitigation. Gravity dams, as critical components of urban flood protec...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,834 Views
18 Pages

7 October 2022

Reducing the local stress in the vicinity of the grain boundaries is a favorable way to improve the super-elastic properties of super-elastic alloys. The crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) was applied in this study to simulate the defor...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,599 Views
20 Pages

16 January 2023

Many concrete structures, such as bridges and wind turbine towers, fail mostly due to the fatigue rapture and bending, where the cracks are initiated and propagate under cyclic loading. Modeling the fracture process zone (FPZ) is essential to underst...

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28 Citations
11,416 Views
16 Pages

Guidelines for Designing Surface Ion Traps Using the Boundary Element Method

  • Seokjun Hong,
  • Minjae Lee,
  • Hongjin Cheon,
  • Taehyun Kim and
  • Dong-il “Dan” Cho

28 April 2016

Ion traps can provide both physical implementation of quantum information processing and direct observation of quantum systems. Recently, surface ion traps have been developed using microfabrication technologies and are considered to be a promising p...

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