Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book contains most of the papers presented at the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Boundary Element Methods. A valuable aid to understanding the BEM and a source of new ideas and applications, the contributions featured deal with themes including: Advanced Formulation; Fluid Mechanics; Electromagnetics; Stress Analysis; Damage Mechanics; Wave Propagation Problems; and Acoustics. Mesh Reduction Methods are also highlighted. These are techniques that have recently been developed to eliminate or greatly simplify the meshes required for analysis, and which promise to produce results of great practical importance.