Boundary Elements XIX

This book contains the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Boundary Element Methods in Engineering, which was held in Rome, Italy, September 9-12, 1997. The conference is recognized internationally as the forum for Boundary Element research and always attracts a large number of well-established practitioners and leading researchers in the field. The Edited Proceedings of these meetings have always reflected the state of the art in boundary element research and constitute a record of the latest developments in the technique before they appeared in other publications. The method, first applied twenty years ago, continues to develop and is now a widely applied tool for engineering and scientific analysis.