Gumus, Ozgur CanAtak, KaanCetin, BarisBaranoglu, BesimCetin, BarbarosManufacturing Engineering2024-07-052024-07-05202400955-79971873-197X10.1016/j.enganabound.2023.10.0192-s2.0-85178664899https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2023.10.019https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/2150Baranoglu, Besim/0000-0003-2005-050X; Cetin, Barbaros/0000-0001-9824-4000In this study, we propose an isogeometric boundary element formulation for the cathodic protection (CP) modeling for amphibious vehicles which includes the treatment of non-linear boundary conditions. Half-space Green's functions are utilized which leads to the discretization of the hull surface only. Non-Uniform Rational B splines (NURBS) are employed to represent both geometry and field variables to obtain higher accuracy where discontinuous collocation points are utilized to make multi-patch implementation easier. Variable condensation technique is applied to manipulate system matrices in a such way that the solution is iterated only on the surfaces where non-linear boundary conditions are assigned which results in reduced computational cost. The computational performance of the formulation is assessed with different solvers for a representative hull geometry.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBEMIsogeometricNURBSCathodic protectionArticleQ11588596WOS:001096365600001