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Trefftz Method

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In recent years, by a boundary method, it is usually understood a numerical procedure in which a subregion or the entire region, is left out of the numerical treatment, by use of available analytical solutions (or, more generally, previously computed solutions). Boundary methods reduce the dimensions involved in the problem leading to considerable economy in the numerical work and constitute a very convenient manner of treating adequately unbounded regions by numerical means. Generally, the dimensionality of the problem is reduced by one, but even when part of the region is treated by finite elements, the size of the discretized domain is reduced [1–2].

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    Carlos A. Brebbia

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Herrera, I. (1984). Trefftz Method. In: Brebbia, C.A. (eds) Topics in Boundary Element Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2877-1_11

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