Application of a new fast multipole BEM for simulation of 2D elastic solid with large number of inclusions

A fast multipole method (FMM) is applied for BEM to reduce both the operation and memory requirement in dealing with very large scale problems. In this paper, a new version of fast multipole BEM for 2D elastostatics is presented and used for simulation of 2D elastic solid with a large number of randomly distributed inclusions combined with a similar subregion approach. Generalized minimum residual method (GMRES) is used as an iterative solver to solve the equation system formed by BEM iteratively. The numerical results show that the scheme presented is applicable to certain large scale problems. The project supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (10172053) and the Ministry of Education