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EPSRC Reference: GR/N09879/01
Title: DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL BOUNDARY ELEMENTS FOR DIFFRACTION OF VERY SHORT WAVES
Principal Investigator: Trevelyan, Professor J
Other Investigators:
Bettess, Professor P
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BAE Systems
Department: Engineering and Computing Sciences
Organisation: Durham, University of
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 04 September 2000 Ends: 03 September 2003 Value (£): 135,087
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Eng. Dynamics & Tribology
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Aerospace, Defence and Marine No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The aim of the work is to develop and implement a new method of numerical simulation of wave diffraction phenomena, with particular reference to high frequency problems in which the wavelength under consideration is short in comparison with the problem dimension. The new approach will be based on the Boundary Element Method (BEM), and will focus on the inclusion of a sinusoidal term in the element shape function. This causes the primary variable to become not the pressure itself, but the envelope of the pressure. Since the variation of the wave envelope is considerably less rapid than that of the pressure, this development will allow the lifting of the well-known restriction of numerical simulation methods which requires that at least ten nodes be used per full wavelength. This will extend the scope of BEM techniques to higher frequency problems which have hitherto been difficult to analyse accurately.
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