SUMMARYThis paper describes the proper external potential formulation of a cathodic protection system employed for corrosion prevention of structures in infinite electrolytes. The boundary condition associated with the mathematical formulation is not of the standard type encountered in hydrodynamic, electrostatic or heat transfer applications. The developed mathematical model is discretized by the boundary element technique, which is then solved iteratively by the Newton-Raphson method.

SUMMARYThis paper discusses a mathematical model governing the galvanic corrosion phenomenon and surveys the research efforts which have been applied to find a solution to the above problem. The authors classify these techniques into three categories. The first is the finite difference method (FDM), the second is the finite element method (FEM) and the last is the boundary clement method (BEM).

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