MODIFIED LOCAL GREENS-FUNCTION METHOD (MLGFM) PART II - APPLICATION FOR ACCURATE FLUX AND TRACTION EVALUATION

The Modified Local Green's Function Method (MLGFM) is an integral tech nique that has been used to solve several problems of continuum mechan ics in the last decade. This method may be understood as an extension of the Galerkin Boundary Element Method, and its main feature is to ma ke use of the properties of a Green's Function projection associated t o the problem, without its explicit knowledge. A preceding paper, acco mpanying this one, presented the MLGFM formulation. In this work, some numerical examples explain important points of the method, e.g. flux convergence, processing time, application to uni- and multicellular bi dimensional potential problems, unicellular bidimensional elasticity a nd unicellular Mindlin plates bending. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.