EFFECT OF CONDUCTIVITY IN CORROSION PROBLEM USING BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD AND GENETIC ALGORITHM

Abstract

Boundary element method applications with inverse solution are used to apply the indirect analysis for modeling of corrosion problem. Laplace equation has been used to model the electrical potential in the electrolyte surface. In this paper a computer modeling has been developed to visualize the effect of conductivity value in corrosion problem. Genetic algorithm is used to create the conductivity value based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics. The boundary element method is then calculating the potential value of the whole domain. FORTRAN and MATLAB program have been developed to calculate and visualize the potential distribution in the domain. Two-dimensional example problems are analyzed to demonstrate the application of the proposed boundary element modeling procedure.