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The boundary element method is now firmly established as an important alternative technique to the prevailing numerical methods of analysis in continuum mechanics [1][2]. One of the most important types of applications is for the solution of a range of problems such as temperature diffusion, some types of fluid flow motion, flow in porous media and many others which can be written in function of a potential and whose governing equation is the Laplacian type. All these potential cases can generally be efficiently and economically analysed using boundary elements.
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Brebbia, C.A., Wrobel, L. (1982). Some Applications of the Boundary Element Method for Potential Problems. In: Holz, K.P., Meissner, U., Zielke, W., Brebbia, C.A., Pinder, G., Gray, W. (eds) Finite Elements in Water Resources. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02348-8_92
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