DISCONTINUOUS BOUNDARY ELEMENTS FOR TWO DIMENSIONAL INVISCID LAMINAR FLUID FLOW

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Lecturer, Department of Mechanics & Elasticity, Military Technical College, Kobry El Kobba, Cairo, EGYPT.

Abstract

In the Boundary Element Method the familiar infinite system of integral equations is discretized by the introduction of boundary elements here ranging from constant through linear, quadratic ... etc. Hitherto, in the case of linear and higher order elements, interelement continuity of the unknown functions has been imposed in applications, un-doubtedly in analogy with finite element practice. In the Boundary Element Method there is no such requirement; so that interelement continuity is
simply not necessary.