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

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 Estorf 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 ... 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... 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... 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