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NSF
Workshop on the Emerging Applications and
Future
Directions of the Boundary Element Method
September 1-3, 2010
Cleveland, Ohio, USA (The University of Akron
Campus)
Summary Report
The rapid development of the boundary
element method (BEM) in the last decade has significantly broadened the applications
of the BEM and the related methods. Many challenging computational problems
such as multi-scale and large-scale modeling of advanced materials, structures,
fluids, and MEMS/NEMS can now be modeled by the BEM effectively, thanks to the
advances of the various fast solution methods. While the BEM related research
are thriving in Europe, Asia and South America, the research activities related
to the BEM in the US have been dwindling since the beginning of this century.
There is an urgent need of retraining researchers, engineers and students in
the US on the recent developments in the BEM and its emerging applications, to
help further advance the research and broaden the applications of the BEM in
the US.
Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation,
a workshop on the BEM was held on The University of Akron campus (in the suburb
of Cleveland, Ohio, USA) during September 1-3, 2010. This workshop had a
two-day short course sequence on the basics of the BEM and a one-day symposium
on the emerging applications and future directions of the BEM. About 50
researchers and engineers around the world and students across the US attended
this workshop.
The workshop started with a two-day short
course sequence for students, researchers and engineers on the fundamentals of
the boundary integral equation (BIE) formulations and the BEM in applied
mechanics, the basics of the Green’s functions, the symmetric Galerkin BEM, and
the new fast multipole BEM. Following the two-day short courses, a one-day
symposium focused on discussions of emerging applications and future directions
of the BEM. Invited speakers from around the world opened the topics, presented
many examples of emerging applications of the BEM in engineering and science,
and led discussions on the future directions in the BEM.
Fellowship
support were awarded to 17 students from 14 universities in the US to support
them for participating this workshop. A competition of poster presentations for
students was also held. This workshop has brought leading researchers
around the world to the US to discuss the emerging applications and the future
directions of the BEM, helped to train a new generation of students in the
research on the BEM, and to connect US researchers and students with those from
other countries and from national labs and industries.
Final Program
(Download
the slides by clicking on the title of the presentation)
September 1, 2010Short Course on the Boundary Element Method Subrata Mukherjee (Cornell University, USA)Introduction to the BEM Lunch and student poster session Ernie Pan (University of Akron, USA)Basics of Green’s functions Student poster sessionSeptember 2, 2010 Short Course on the Boundary Element Method (Continued) Len Gray (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA) and Alok Sutradhar (Ohio State University, USA)Symmetric Galerkin BEM Lunch and student poster session Yijun Liu (University of Cincinnati, USA)Fast multipole BEM Reception and poster competition awardsSeptember 3, 2010 Symposium on the Emerging Applications and Future Directions of the BEMInvited Lead Persons and Panel Discussion Topics:Glaucio H. Paulino (University of Illinois and National Science Foundation, USA) Challenges and funding opportunities in computational science and engineeringNaoshi Nishimura (Kyoto University, Japan) Fast BEM for elastodynamic and periodic problemsMartin Schanz (Graz University of Technology, Austria) BEM for solving problems governed by Helmholtz equations – An OverviewAttilio Frangi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) BEM for modeling microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)Andres Saez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) BEM for modeling fracture mechanics problemsOlaf Steinbach (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Fast boundary element methods: A mathematical viewJ. Sladek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak) Integral equations and related meshfree methodsNey A. Dumont (PUC-Rio, Brazil) BEM research and new developments in BrazilWenjing Ye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) BEM and the precorrected FFT acceleration techniqueJian Wang (Los Alamos National Lab, USA) Material modeling with Green’s functionsFrancis Noblesse (NSWCCD David Taylor Model Basin, USA) Green-function method in hydrodynamicsJohn R. Berger (Colorado School of Mines, USA)Incorporation of microstructural effects in Green’s functions and boundary element calculationsRavi Raveendra (Comet Technology Corporation, USA) BEM applications and the needs in industries |
Poster
Competition Awards
Eighteen students
participated in the competition of poster presentations during the workshop.
These posters covered a wide range of research topics in computational science
and engineering. All the 18 posters were reviewed by seven judges. Based on
their excellent research efforts, approaches, results and presentation skills,
the following three students were selected as the winners of the poster
competition at the workshop:
Zhangli Peng, University of California San Diego:
Multiscale modeling of red blood cells in Stokes flows by coupling
finite element and boundary element methods
Sofie Leon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Adaptive
dynamic fracture using nonlinear cohesive zone modeling
Han Tran, The University of Texas at Austin:
A
weakly-singular SGBEM for analysis of cracks in 2D multi-field media
Photos
and Slides
Review Article
A review article on the state-of-the-art and future directions of the BEM has been prepared by the organizers and the invited speakers at the workshop. This review article has been published in Applied Mechanics Review. Dr. Yijun Liu coordinated the efforts on the preparation of this review article. If you are interested in this review article, please contact Dr. Liu.
Organizing
Committee
Dr. Yijun Liu, University of Cincinnati (Co-Chair)
Dr. Ernie Pan, University of Akron (Co-Chair)
Dr. Subrata Mukherjee, Cornell University
Dr. Len Gray, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Thomas J. Rudolphi, Iowa State University
Dr. Anh-Vu Phan, University of South Alabama
Dr. Alex Cheng, University of Mississippi
Dr. Mitch Denda, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dr. Tim Wu, University of Kentucky
Sponsors
The US National Science
Foundation
Program of Mechanics of Materials
Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
Program Director: Dr. Glaucio H. Paulino, Willett Professor of Engineering, UIUC
Contact
Professor of
Mechanical Engineering
University of
Cincinnati
Tel.: 1 (513) 556-4607
E-mail: Yijun.Liu@uc.edu
Professor of Civil Engineering
University of Akron
Tel.: 1 (330) 972-6739
E-mail: pan2@uakron.edu
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