Introduction

The International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM), founded by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) in 1978, has attracted high quality researchers and papers since its founding. The 48th Edition of the conference (BEM/MRM 48) will be held in Dalian China, as an affiliated conference with WIT.

Since 1978, the conference has advanced numerical methods for engineering applications that reduce modeling dimensions, such as the Boundary Element Method (BEM), or reduce mesh for discretization, such as meshless methods. The meeting welcomes all academic and industrial stakeholders interested in the methods, and particularly the participation of young researchers.

The meetings have produced a collection of edited volumes in which major developments in the field have been reported. This valuable series has been offered in digital form since 1993, with all papers Open Access available in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary website (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they can be easily accessed and downloaded for free.

Conference Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at BEM/MRM 48. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.

• Boundary element method
• Method of fundamental solutions
• Trefftz methods
• Boundary integral equations
• Boundary node method
• Displacement discontinuity method
• Fast multipole method
• Differential quadrature method
• Panel method
• Charge method
• Element Free Galerkin method
• Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method
• Radial basis function collocation method
• Radial point interpolation method
• Scaled boundary finite element
• Numerical manifold method
• Peridynamics
• Finite point method
• Advanced computational mathematics
• Advanced finite difference method
• Generalized finite difference method
• Advanced finite element method
• Generalized finite element method
• Extended finite element method
• Smoothed finite element method
• Radial basis function-finite difference method
• Discrete element method
• Smoothed particle hydrodynamics
• Material point method
• Reproducing kernel particle method
• Other particle methods
• Physics Informed Neural Networks
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning