The Boundary Element Method (BEM) has long been considered to be a viable alternative to the Finite Element Method (FEM) for doing engineering analysis. The BEM reduces the dimensions of the problem by one and leads to smaller system of equations. One of the inherent limitations of the BEM has been the long time required for the solution of large problems. This makes the BEM prohibitively expen...

In this paper we present a new approach to creation of 3D surface models of MEMS devices from 2D layout masks suitable for analysis using the Boundary Element Method (BEM) [1]. The algorithm is implemented as a part of the commercially available BEM based multi-physics solver AutoMEMS [2] and is responsible for automatically generating surface 3D models from a layout (GDSII or CIF) and a user s...

The advent of high speed microcomputers and available software has made possible the calculation of magnetic fields and torques of brushless DC motors. In particular, the Boundary Element Method (BEM) has shown to be an efficient tool for the design of these motors. This paper explains the BEM approach and addresses the key concerns facing the design engineer using such software, i.e. the ease ...

In this work, possibility of simulating biological organs in realtime using the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is investigated. Biological organs are assumed to follow linear elastostatic material behavior, and constant boundary element is the element type used. First, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is used to speed up the BEM computations to achieve the realtime performance. Next, instead of ...

In this article, we first thoroughly analyze Wiener filter combined least squares based channel estimation (WF-LS) and then illustrate its limitation in high-speed mobile environments. Based on the analysis, we propose to combine WF with basis expansion model (BEM) based channel estimation to deal with channel estimation in various mobile environments, especially in high-speed cases. The expres...

Abstract. In previous work, we have investigated real coded genetic algorithms with several types of multi-parent recombination operators and found evidence that multi-parent recombination with center of mass crossover (CMX) seems a good choice for real coded GAs. But CMX does not work well on functions which have their optimum on the corner of the search space. In this paper, we propose a meth...

This paper is concerned with the boundary particle method (BPM), a new boundary-only radial basis function collocation schemes. The method is developed based on the multiple reciprocity principle and applying either high-order nonsingular general solutions or singular fundamental solutions as the radial basis function. Like the multiple reciprocity BEM (MR-BEM), the BPM does not require any inn...

In this paper, we will focus on channel estimation (CE) in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The time-varying (TV) channels are modeled by a basis expansion model (BEM). Due to the time-variation, the channel matrix in the frequency domain is no longer diagonal, but approximately banded. We use a pilot-aided algorithm for estimation of rapidly varying wireless channels ...

The forward M/EEG problem consists in simulating the electric potential and the magnetic field produced outside the head by currents in the brain related to neural activity. All previously proposed solutions using the Boundary Element Method (BEM) were based on a double-layer integral formulation. We have developed an alternative symmetric BEM formulation, achieving a significantly higher accur...

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) can be used to predict the scattering of sound in rooms. It reduces the problem of modelling the volume of air to one involving only the surfaces; hence the number of unknowns scales more favourably with problem size and frequency than it does for volumetric methods such as FEM and FDTD. The time domain BEM predicts the transient scattering of sound, and is usu...