This book is a self-contained, programming-oriented and learner-centered book on finite
element method (FEM), with special emphasis given to developing MATLAB® programs for …

This paper deals with the design and validation of accurate local absorbing boundary
conditions set on convex polygonal and polyhedral computational domains for the finite …

Propagation characteristics of guided waves are widely utilized for nondestructive
characterization of laminated composites which are often immersed in fluid. These …

Arterial stiffness is an important biomarker for many cardiovascular diseases. Shear wave
elastography is a recent technique aimed at estimating local arterial stiffness using guided …

The aim of this paper is to investigate stress analysis of semi-infinite soils consisting of two
layers with twin rectangular tunnels under static loads. The region close to the ground …

The thin layer method (TLM) is an effective semi-discrete numerical tool for analyzing wave
motion in stratified media. The TLM can calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for both …

Abstract The Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) method is a powerful approach to absorb
outgoing waves from a finite computational domain in various media, such as elastic …

A suite of methodologies is presented to compute shear wave dispersion in incompressible
waveguides encountered in biomedical imaging; plate, tube, and general prismatic …

A continued-fraction absorbing boundary condition (CFABC) is combined with a consistent
transmitting boundary and applied to an analysis of soil–structure interaction in a layered …

Motivated by the need to compute dispersion curves for layered media in the contexts of
geophysical inversion and nondestructive testing, a novel discretization approach, termed …