“…The design variables include material properties, size, shape, surface normal velocity, frequency, etc. So far, many structural-acoustic sensitivity analysis methods have been presented based on boundary element method (BEM) [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], finite element method (FEM) [17][18][19][20][21][22] or both of them [23][24][25][26]. Among these methods, the boundary element method is considered to be an important technique in the computational solution of acoustics, due to the reduction of the dimension [1][2][3], especially for exterior problems.…”