Author: Youssef F. Rashed, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Cairo University, Giza Egypt

Summary:

The main objective of this primer is to make the boundary element method more usable, not only among researchers but among engineers as well. This primer will provide a series of lessons and will discuss different mathematical and numerical topics of boundary element methods. In the current lesson, we will discuss:

  1. An introduction and overview of the boundary element method.
  2. Program testing methods and possible errors.
  3. Different modeling strategies.