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...

In order to overcome the difficulties of low computational efficiency and high memory requirement in the conventional boundary element method for solving large-scale potential problems, a fast multipole boundary element method for the problems of Poisson equation is presented. First of all, through the multipole expansion and local expansion for the basic solution of the kernel function of the ...

In this paper, we apply Shannon wavelet and Galerkin method to deal with the numerical solution of the natural boundary integral equation of plane elasticity probem in the upper half-plane. The fast algorithm is given and only 3K entries need to be computed for one 4K × 4K stiffness matrix. Keyword: plane elasticity problem, natural integral equation, Shannon wavelet, Galerkin-wavelet method.

The two-dimensional problem of advection–dispersion associated with a non-aqueousphase liquid (NAPL) pool is addressed using the boundary element method. The problem is appropriately posed with an inhomogeneous boundary condition taking into consideration the presence of the pool and the impermeable layer. We derive a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind for the concentration gradient a...

A Boundary Integral Equation for the eigenmode of Photonic Crystal Fibers is formulated and numerically solved using the Nyström method. The real and imaginary parts of the propagation constant, which are related to the dispersion and the confinement loss of fibers, are obtained using a secant method. This formulation is very flexible to handle the fiber geometry, and therefore can be applied t...

In this paper, the evaluation of time profile of a femtosecond pulse laser propagated through biological tissues is studied. The majority of the biological tissues with a high scattering anisotropy must be considered as turbid media, that their optical responses are complicated. To study the propagation of ultra-short pulse in turbid media, the diffuse equation is used. In this study, the analy...

In the earlier paper [6] a Galerkin method was proposed and analyzed for the numerical solution of a Dirichlet problem for a semi-linear elliptic boundary value problem of the form U = F ( ; U). This was converted to a problem on a standard domain and then converted to an equivalent integral equation. Galerkin’s method was used to solve the integral equation, with the eigenfunctions of the Lapl...

Conventional integral equation methods for diffraction gratings require lattice sum techniques to evaluate quasi-periodic Green's functions. The boundary integral equation Neumann-to-Dirichlet map (BIE-NtD) method in Wu and Lu [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 26, 2444 (2009)], [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 28, 1191 (2011)] is a recently developed integral equation method that avoids the quasi-periodic Green's functio...

In this paper we present a numerical solution method for the Bernoulli free boundary value problem for the Laplace equation in three dimensions. We extend a nonlinear integral equation approach for the free boundary reconstruction [21] from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional case. The idea of the method consists in reformulating Bernoulli’s problem as a system of boundary integral equ...