1 Introduction.- 2 Some Elements of Potential Theory.- 3 A Fourier Series Approach.- 4 Mixed BVPs, Transmission Problems.- 5 Signorini Problem, More Nonsmooth BVPs.- 6 A Primer to Boundary Element Methods.- 7 BEM in Polygonal/Polyhedral Domains.- 8 Exponential Convergence of hp-BEM.- 9 Mapping Properties on Polygons.- 10 A-BEM.- 11 BEM for Contact Problems.- 12 FEM-BEM Coupling.- 13 Time-Domain BEM.- A Linear Operator Theory.- B Pseudodifferential Operators.- C Convex and Nonsmooth Analysis.- D Some Implementation for BEM.- Bibliograpy.- Index.
Joachim Gwinner is retired professor of mathematics at Bundeswehr University Munich. His research interests span from optimization to numerical and variational analysis with applications in continuum mechanics.
Ernst Peter Stephan is retired professor of mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover. His research covers numerical methods for partial differential equations and boundary integral equations together with their analysis.