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A further stage in the development of the Boundary Element Method is now considered in which the approximation of the boundary remains by straight lines (as in Chapter 3), but the approximation of the unknown function is improved. In Chapter 3 the unknown function was taken as being constant in each of the straight line boundary elements. Here it is represented itself by a straight line. Since the approximation of both the boundary and the unknown function have the same linear form in terms of the parameter of variation along the line, the formulation is called isoparametric.
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Hall, W.S. (1994). Linear Isoparametric Solution. In: The Boundary Element Method. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0784-6_4
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