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Two methods of forming regular or hypersingular boundary integral equations starting from an interior integral representations are discussed. One method involves direct treatment of the singularities such as Cauchy principal value and/or finite-part interpretation of the integrals and the other does not. By either approach, theory places the same restrictions on the smoothness of the density function for the integrals to exist, assuming sufficient smoothness of the geometrical boundary itself. Specifically, necessary conditions on the smoothness of the density function for meaningful boundary integral formulas to exist as required for the collocation procedure are established here. Cases for which such conditions may not be sufficient are also mentioned and it is understood that with Galerkin techniques, weaker smoothness requirements may pertain. Finally, the bearing of these issues on the choice of boundary elements, to numerically solve a hypersingular boundary integral equation, is explored and numerical examples in 2D are presented.
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Communicated by S. N. Atluri, August 27, 1991
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Krishnasamy, G., Rizzo, F.J. & Rudolphi, T.J. Continuity requirements for density functions in the boundary integral equation method. Computational Mechanics 9, 267–284 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370035
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