EXPANDING THE CVBEM APPROXIMATION IN A SERIES

In the past, the CVBEM (complex variable boundary element method) has been approached as a collocation problem or by least squares. In this work, the CVBEM analog is redeveloped as a series expansion of nodal p oint functions with unknown nodal point values as the coefficients. Th is series expansion provides further insight into the theoretical and approximation aspects of the CVBEM. Applications demonstrate the utili ty of the CVBEM as a computational approach to solving two-dimensional potential problems involving Laplace and Poisson equations.