Boundary Element Technology XII Author:J. I. Frankel, C. A. Brebbia, M. H. Aliabadi This book contains 44 edited papers presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Boundary Element Technology (BETECH 97), which was held in Knoxville, Tennessee, April 9-11, 1997. As in previous meetings, this BETECH Conference brought together researchers and practitioners of the boundary element method and provided them with... more » a forum in which to report their findings in this important and stimulating field. The papers encompass a broad range of boundary element topics written by industry professionals, boundary element researchers, and research code developers. Topics include: Acoustics, Fracture Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, shape Optimization and Inverse Analysis, Stress Analysis, Electrical and Electromagnetic Problems, Computational Aspects and Integral Equations.« less