An International Journal for Advances in Boundary Element and Other Mesh Reduction Methods Published in Association with the International Society for Boundary Elements

Beskos University of Patras, Patras, Greece J.-T.. Chen National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan... Itagaki Hokkaido University, Sappora, Japan E.. Karabalis University of Patra

An International Journal for Advances in Boundary Element and Other Mesh Reduction Methods

Published in Association with the International Society for Boundary Elements

Editor-in-Chief:

Carlos A Brebbia

Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA, UK, Fax: +44 (0) 2380

293223, Email: carlos@wessex.ac.uk

Editors:

Alexander H.-D Cheng

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, P.O Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA, Fax: +1 662-915-5523

Henry Power

School of Mechanics Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, Fax: +44 115 951 3800

Masataka Tanaka

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Shinshu University, 500 Wakasato, Nagano 380, Japan, Fax: +81 262 246515

Editorial Board:

D.E Beskos

University of Patras, Patras, Greece

J.-T Chen

National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

A.J Davies

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

V.G De Giorgi

Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA

G De Mey

Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

E Divo

University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

J Dominguez

Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Sevilla, Spain

A El-Zafrany

Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

G Fasshauer

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

A Galybin

Wessex Institute of Technology, Southampton, UK

H.L Gaul

Universitat Stuttgart, Germany

G.S Gipson

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA

L.J Gray

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

S Grilli

University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, USA

Y C Hon

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

M.S Ingber

University of New Mexico, Alburquerque, USA

D.B Ingham

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

M Itagaki

Hokkaido University, Sappora, Japan

E J Kansa

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Oakland, USA

D.L Karabalis

University of Patras, Patras, Greece

A.J Kassab

University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

J.T Katsikadelis

National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

V Leitão

Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa, Portugal

G R Liu

National University of Singapore, Singapore

A.A Mammoli

University of New Mexico, Alburquerque, USA

G Manolis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

W.J Mansur

COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

T Matsumoto

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

S Mukherjee

Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

A.J Nowak

Technical University of Silesia, Gliwice, Poland

K Onishi

Ibaraki University, Bunkyo, Japan

D Poljak

University of Split, Croatia

V Popov

Wessex Institute of Technology, Southhampton, UK

J.J Rencis

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

T.J Rudolphi

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, USA

B Sarler

Nova Gorica Polytechnic, Gorica, Slovenia

E Schnack

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Germany

A.P.S Selvadurai

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

P Skerget

University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

V Sladek

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

S Syngellakis

University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

A Tadeu

Polo II - Pinhal De Marrocos, Coimbra, Portugal

W.S Venturini

Sao Carlos School of Engineering, Sao Carlos, Brazil

O von Estorff

Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany

L.C Wrobel

Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

T.W Wu

University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

S.P Zhu

University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia