Virtual Boundary Integral Method for Anisotropic Potential Problems

Heat conduction in anisotropic materials has important applications in science and engineering. In this paper the virtual boundary element method (VBEM) is applied to solve these problems. Due to the fact of a virtual boundary outside the real boundary, the VBEM does not need to treat the singular boundary integrals, and thus, is more accurate and convenient than the traditional one. Numerical examples are presented, to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of this method.

Theory of Fast Multipole Virtual Boundary Element Method and Discussion on Key Issues

The basic theory of fast multipole virtual boundary element method (VBEM) is discussed through expanding the fundamental solution, and the algorithm can make the complexities of operation and memory about solution of the equations to be of linear proportion to the freedoms of the problem. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the feasibility, accuracy and efficiency of the method. At the same time, the relationships between the order for expansion and the storage capacity, computing time, precision are analyzed, and the influence of boundary points in the leaf to the calculation efficiency is discussed. The corresponding reference value is put forward for the convenience of engineering application.

Virtual Boundary Element Collocation Method with RBF Interpolation on Virtual Boundary and Diagonalization Feature in Fast Multipole Method

The algorithm idea of virtual boundary element collocation method with RBF interpolation on virtual boundary and diagonalization feature in fast multipole method is presented to study 2-D elasticity problems in this paper. In other words, the new fast multipole method (FMM) adopting diagonalization and the generalized minimal residual (GMRES) algorithm are jointly employed to solve the equations related to virtual boundary element collocation method (VBEM) with RBF interpolation on virtual boundary. In this paper, the numerical scheme suitable for original FMM with respect to two-dimensional problem of elasticity is optimized, through the introduction of concept of diagonalization, in terms of the radial basis function to express the unknown virtual load functions, in order to further improve the efficiency of the problem to be solved. Then large-scale numerical simulations of elastostatics might be achieved by the method. Numerical examples in the paper have proved the feasibility, efficiency and calculating precision of the method.

Fast Multipole Virtual Boundary Element - Least Square Method for Solving 2-D Elastic Problems

In this paper, the fast multipole virtual boundary element - least square method (Fast Multipole VBE - LSM) is proposed and used to simulate 2-D elastic problems, which is based on the fast multipole method (FMM) and virtual boundary element - least square method (VBE - LSM).The main idea of the method is to change computational model by applying the FMM to conventional VBE - LSM. The memory and operations could be reduced to be of linear proportion to the degree of freedom (DOF) and large scale problems could be effectively solved on a common desktop with this method. Numerical results show that this method holds virtues of high feasibility, accuracy and efficiency. Moreover, the idea of this method can be generalized and extended in application.