Applicability of Boundary Integral Equation Method to Crack Problems

A General Boundary Integral Equation Approach to Eddy Current Crack

Eddy current techniques have been widely used in the NDE inspection of aircraft engine components. Depending on the flaw characteristics and specimen composition, various EC probe designs have been employed to achieve the maximum probability of detection (POD). Traditionally, the effectiveness of a probe design for a given inspection is determined experimentally. In particular, parameterssuch a...

Time-dependent problems with the boundary integral equation method

Time-dependent problems that are modeled by initial-boundary value problems for parabolic or hyperbolic partial differential equations can be treated with the boundary integral equation method. The ideal situation is when the right-hand side in the partial differential equation and the initial conditions vanish, the data are given only on the boundary of the domain, the equation has constant co...

The Boundary Integral Equation Method

A novel boundary integral equation for surface crack model

A novel boundary integral equation (BIE) is developed for eddy-current nondestructive evaluation problems with surface crack under a uniform applied magnetic field. Once the field and its normal derivative are obtained for the structure in the absence of cracks, normal derivative of scattered field on the conductor surface can be calculated by solving this equation with the aid of method of mom...

Integral Equation Methods for Free Boundary Problems∗

We outline a unified approach for treating free boundary problems arising in Finance using integral equation methods. Starting with the PDE formulations of the free boundary problems, we show how to derive nonlinear integral equations for the free boundaries in a variety of Finance applications. Methods to treat theoretical (existence, uniqueness) questions and analytical and numerical approxim...