This book contains papers from the thirty-first conference on the Boundary Element Method and other meshless techniques. The major motivation behind the Boundary Element Method (BEM) was to reduce the dependency of analysis on the definition of meshes. This has allowed the method to expand naturally into new techniques such as Dual Reciprocity. Mesh Reduction Methods (MRM) and BEM continue to be very active areas of research with many of the resulting techniques being
successfully applied to solve increasingly complex problems.

The topics of the thirty-first conference included: Advanced Meshless and
Mesh Reduction Methods; Heat and Mass Transfer; Electrical Engineering
and Electromagnetics; Fluid Flow; Advanced Formulations; Computational
Techniques; Advanced Structural Applications; Dynamics and Vibrations;
Damage Mechanics and Fracture; Material Characterisation; Financial
Engineering Applications; Stochastic Modelling; Emerging Applications.