Journal
ENGINEERING ANALYSIS WITH BOUNDARY ELEMENTS
Volume 37, Issue 9, Pages 1169-1178Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enganabound.2013.05.005
Keywords
Nearly singular integrals; Numerical integration; Boundary element method; Variable transformations
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [11172098]
- National 973 Project of China [2010CB328005]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Creative Research Groups of China [12JJ7001]
- [2011ZX04003-011]
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This work presents new variable transformations for accurate evaluation of the nearly singular integrals arising in the 3D boundary element method (BEM). The proposed method is an extension of the variable transformation method in Ref. [4] for 2D BEM to 3D BEM. In this paper, first a new system denoted as (alpha,beta) is introduced compared with the polar coordinate system. So the original transformations in Ref. [4] can be developed to 3D in (alpha,beta) or the polar coordinate system. Then, the new transformation is performed by four steps in case the source point coincides with the projection point or five steps otherwise. For each step, a new transformation is proposed based on the approximate distance function, so that all steps can finally be unified into a uniform formation. To perform integration on irregular elements, an adaptive integration scheme combined with the transformations is applied. Numerical examples compared with other methods are presented. The results demonstrate that our method is accurate and effective. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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