9R56. Advanced Boundary Elements for Heat Transfer. Topics in Engineering, Vol 42. - M-T Ibanez (Wessex Inst of Tech, Southampton, UK) and H Power (Univ of Nottingham, UK). WIT Press, Southampton, UK. 2002. 134 pp. ISBN 1-85312-898-8. $99.00.
Reviewed by DP Sekulic (Col of Eng, Univ of Kentucky, 425 CRMS Bldg, Lexington KY 40506-0108).
This monograph is published as the 42nd volume in the WIT Press series Topics in Engineering edited by CA Brebbia, of the Wessex Institute of Technology, and JJ Connor, of MIT. The aim of the series is to provide a rapid and informal dissemination of significant new work in engineering. Consequently, the content of this book is highly specialized and the targeted audience, in this particular case, seems to be quite small.
To locate the topic of this book within a diverse family of numerical methods for engineering, one should recognize that prevailing, widely accepted methods...