1st Edition
Introduction to Approximate Solution Techniques, Numerical Modeling, and Finite Element Methods
By Victor N. Kaliakin
Copyright 2002
664 Pages
by
CRC Press
664 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Functions as a self-study guide for engineers and as a textbook for nonengineering students and engineering students, emphasizing generic forms of differential equations, applying approximate solution techniques to examples, and progressing to specific physical problems in modular, self-contained chapters that integrate into the text or can stand alone! This reference/text focuses on classical... Read more
Governing equations and their approximate solution; computer storage and manipulation of numbers; the finite difference method; the method of weighted residuals; variational methods; introduction to the finite element method; development of finite element equations; steps in performing finite element analysis; element interpolation functions; element mapping; finite element analysis of scalar field problems; finite element analysis in linear elastostatics; implementation, modelling, and related issues. Appendices: mathematical potpourri; matrices and linear algebra; some notes on heat flow; local and natural coordinate systems; the patch test; solution of linear systems of equations; notes on integration of finite elements.
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Kaliakin, Victor N.
