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Lai, Vincent Chintu was born on August 5, 1930 in Changhua, Taiwan. Naturalized, United States of America, 1969. Son of Huosheng and Luan (Kao) Lai.
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The Complex Variable Boundary Element Method (CVBEM) has emerged as a new and effective modeling method in the field of computational mechanics and hydraulics. The CVBEM is a generalization of the Cauchy integral formula into a boundary integral equation method. The model ing approach by boundary integration, the use of complex variables for two-dimensional potential problems, and the adaptability to now-popular microcomputers are among the factors that make this technique easy to learn, simple to operate, practical for modeling, and efficient in simulating various physical processes. Many of the CVBEM concepts and notions may be derived from the Analytic Function Method (AFM) presented in van der Veer (1978). The AFM served as the starting point for the generalization of the CVBEM theory which was developed during the first author's research engagement (1979 through 1981) at the University of California, Irvine. The growth and expansion of the CVBEM were subsequently nurtured at the U. S. Geological Survey, where keen interest and much activity in numerical modeling and computational mechanics-and-hydraulics are prevalent. Inclusion of the CVBEM research program in Survey's computational-hydraulics projects, brings the modeling researcher more uniform aspects of numerical mathematics in engineering and scientific problems, not to mention its (CVBEM) practicality and usefulness in the hydrologic investigations. This book is intended to introduce the CVBEM to engineers and scientists with its basic theory, underlying mathematics, computer algorithm, error analysis schemes, model adjustment procedures, and application examples.
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Lai, Vincent Chintu was born on August 5, 1930 in Changhua, Taiwan. Naturalized, United States of America, 1969. Son of Huosheng and Luan (Kao) Lai.
Bachelor of Science, National Taiwan University, 1953. Master of Science, University Iowa, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1962.
Associate civil engineer Civil Engineering Division, Construction Bureau, Taiwan Provincial Govt, 1954-1955. Research hydraulic engineer United States Geological Survey, Arlington, Virginia, 1961—1972, research hydrologist Reston, 1973—1993, scientist emeritus, since 2006. Adjunct associate professor Howard University, Washington, 1972—1974.
Visiting professor National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1991, 1993—1995, senior research fellow, Hydrotech Research Institute, since 1996.
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Member American Society of Civil Engineers (technical committee on hydromechanics 1980-1982, chairman computational hydraulics, 1981-1982, publication committee, publication representative 1980-1982, task committee on computational hydraulics, 1977-1980, theory and numerical modeling of flow in steep channels, 1993-1995), International Association of Hydraulic Research, Association Computing Machinery.
Married Sue Shu-chen Yang, August 24, 1963. Children: Albert H., Emily H.