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However, as the time step decreases progressively and approaches zero, the integrand of the domain integrals is close to singular, resulting in large errors when employing standard Gaussian quadrature directly. To solve the problem and further improve the calculation accuracy of the domain integrals, an (\u03b1, \u03b2) distance transformation is presented. Distance transformation is a simple and efficient method for eliminating near-singularity, typically applied to nearly singular integrals. Firstly, the (\u03b1, \u03b2) coordinate transformation is introduced. Then, a new distance transformation for the domain integrals is constructed by replacing the shortest distance with the time step. With the new method, the integrand of the domain integrals is substantially smoothed, and the singularity arising from small time steps in the domain integrals is effectively eliminated. Thus, more accurate results can be obtained by the (\u03b1, \u03b2) distance transformation. Different sizes of time steps, positions of source point, and shapes of integration elements are considered in numerical examples. Comparative studies of the numerical results for the domain integrals using various methods demonstrate that higher accuracy and efficiency are achieved by the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/axioms13070490","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,22]],"date-time":"2024-07-22T17:36:04Z","timestamp":1721669764000},"page":"490","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Numerical Computation of 2D Domain Integrals in Boundary Element Method by (\u03b1, \u03b2) Distance Transformation for Transient Heat Conduction Problems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yunqiao","family":"Dong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China"}]},{"given":"Zhengxu","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China"}]},{"given":"Hengbo","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"767","DOI":"10.1080\/00207160.2018.1469748","article-title":"Error analysis of moving least-squares method with non-identical sampling","volume":"96","author":"Guo","year":"2019","journal-title":"Int. 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