Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, a workshop on the boundary element
method (BEM) was held on the campus of the University of Akron during September 1–3 …

Several barriers exist to the development and optimization of high frequency Micro-Electro-
Mechanical (MEMS) resonators, primarily adequate control and understanding of dissipation …

The case of oscillatory cylindrical Couette gas flow has been used to investigate the effects
of curvature and rarefaction on the dynamic velocity and shear stress profiles. In addition …

We consider an electrostatically actuated torsional micromirror, a key element of recent
optical microdevices. The mechanical response is analyzed with specific emphasis on its …

We analyze and test a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) shock sensor that switches
from a first stable state to a second stable state when subjected to an acceleration …

The BGK model of the Boltzmann equation is applied to the analysis of damping in silicon
inertial MEMS working at low-moderate frequencies. Assuming small perturbations, the …

This paper focuses on the problem of the numerical evaluation of dissipation induced by
thermoelastic coupling in microelectromechanical systems. An ad hoc conceived, FE based …

The Galerkin boundary node method (GBNM) is a boundary only meshless method that
combines an equivalent variational formulation of boundary integral equations for governing …

The main torsional mode of electrostatically actuated micromirrors is known to be dominated
by parametric resonance when the actuation is performed via in-plane comb fingers. Here …

A fast multipole boundary element method (BEM) is presented in this paper for large-scale
analysis of two-dimensional (2-D) Stokes flow problems based on a dual boundary integral …