abstract: in this paper, a new population-based search called the bees algorithm (ba) is presented to estimate the time-dependent heat transfer coefficient and the corresponding heat flux at the boundaries of a two-dimensional body subjected to transient heat conduction, using the temperature measurements at discrete nodal locations on the boundaries, where heat flux is specified as the boundar...

Rebar fracture in boundary elements of lightly reinforced shear walls in recent earthquake motivated research on the minimum longitudinal reinforcement applicable to shear walls. These researches lead to change in the ACI 318-19 requirement for minimum longitudinal reinforcement in boundary elements. New ACI 318 requirement increase minimum longitudinal reinforcement ratio for boundary elements...

analysis of the stresses, displacements, and horizontal strains of the ground subsidence due to underground excavation in rocks can be accomplished by means of a hybridized higher order indirect boundary element/finite difference (be/fd) formulation. a semi-infinite displacement discontinuity field is discretized (numerically) using the cubic displacement discontinuity elements (i.e. each highe...

Preconditioned iterative solution methods are compared with the direct Gaussian elimination method to solve dense linear systems Ax = b which originate from crack propagation problems, modeled and discretized by boundary element (BEM) techniques. Numerical experiments are presented and compared with the direct solution method available in a commercial BEM package. The experiments show that the ...

In this paper, the inverse Cauchy problem for Laplace equation defined in an arbitrary plane domain is investigated by using the collocation Trefftz method (CTM) with a better postconditioner. We first introduce a multiple-scale Rk in the T-complete functions as a set of bases to expand the trial solution. Then, the better values of Rk are sought by using the concept of an equilibrated matrix, ...

Functional compartmentalization of eukaryotic genomes is thought to be necessary for the proper regulation of gene expression. Chromatin insulators or boundary elements have been implicated in the establishment of this compartmentalization, as they may be involved in creating independent chromatin domains. Recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of insulator function suggest a role for ...