Article history: Received 18 December 2008 Received in revised form 21 June 2009 Accepted 25 July 2009 Available online 6 August 2009

Solutions of linear elliptic partial differential equations in unbounded domains can be represented by boundary potentials if they satisfy certain conditions at infinity. These radiation conditions depend on the fundamental solution chosen for the integral representation. We prove some basic results about radiation conditions in a rather general framework. Fundamental solutions G are considered...

This paper presents a boundary integral equation method for computing numerical conformal mapping of bounded multiply connected region onto an annulus with spiral slits region and its inverse. The method is an extension of the author’s method for computing the Annulus with circular slits map of bounded multiply connected regions (see [Sangawi, A. W. K., Murid, A. H. M., Nasser, M. M. S.: Annulu...

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Boundary element method (BEM) is one of the numerical methods to solve boundary value problems of partial differential equations. The BEM is especially useful for wave scattering problems for unbounded domains since the numerical solution obtained by BEM automatically satisfies radiation condition, and also, discretisations only of the boundaries are required and those of the domain extending i...

Several systems based on bookshelf image analysis have been studied for automating bookshelf inspection in libraries and bookstores. In conventional systems, book boundaries are firstly detected for extracting each individual book by using some popular line detection technique, such as Hough transformation. Their detection accuracies, however, are sometimes insufficient. In this paper, we propo...

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