Boundary Element Methods in Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics

This volume demonstrates that boundary element methods are both elegant and efficient in their application to time dependent time harmonic problems in engineering and therefore worthy of considerable development. Preface, List of Contributors, 1. Helmholtz and Poincare Potential—Vorticity Decompositions, 2. Advanced Boundary Element Methods for Steady Incompressible Thermoviscous Flow, 3. A Time-Dependent Incompressible Viscous BEM for Moderate Reynolds Numbers, 4. A Boundary Integral Formulation in Primitive Variables for Unsteady Viscous Flows, 5. Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Unsteady Flow Problems, 6. A General Theory of Unsteady Compressible Potential Flows with Applications to Aeroplanes and Rotors, 7. Recent Advances in Solution Methods for Unsteady Viscous Flows, 8. Boundary Element Analysis of Slow Non-Newtonian Flow, 9. Further Development of BEM in Thermal Fluid Dynamics, Index