Introduction

The Conference on Boundary Elements and the Mesh Reduction Methods is the recognised international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest advances of these methods and their applications in science and engineering.

The continuous success of the conference since the first meeting took place in 1978 indicates the strength of the research carried out by different groups around the world. The history of the Conference, now in its 35th annual meeting, traces the evolution of advanced methods since the first successful development of boundary integral techniques into BEM took place to the recent and most sophisticated Mesh Reduction Methods. The objective of the meetings is the further development of technologies that reduce or eliminate the type of meshes required by first generation computational methods such as finite differences and finite elements. The aim was achieved through the emergence of BEM as a method that eliminates the need for an internal mesh and more recently through the development of a series of advanced techniques for further mesh reduction approaches culminating in the meshless methods.

Since 1978 the conference has produced a series of volumes in which all major developments in the field have been presented. This valuable collection has been available in digital form since 1993 when the volumes started to be archived in the eLibrary of the Wessex Institute (http://library.witpress.com) where they can be easily accessed by the international scientific community.

 Who Should Attend

The BEM/MRM conference attracts a substantial number of well established and leading researchers in the field. The meetings have always had a special appeal to young researchers and are characterised by a friendly atmosphere in which delegates at different stages of their careers can interact with each other.

Engineers and scientists within the areas of numerical analysis, boundary elements and meshless methods will benefit from attending the meeting.

 EABE Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods (EABE) will take place during the Conference. The Journal has successfully become the main publication not only for Boundary Elements but for many other papers in the important field of mesh reduction techniques.