Programming the Finite Element Method

This highly successful book shows how to create programs using the finite element method to solve specific problems. The new second edition covers broader ground than the first and the authors deal with geomechanics in much less detail giving a more general approach to the subject. To give students a thorough grounding in the development of finite element programs, topics have been added to most chapters and additional computer programs and examples have been included. There is additional material on fluid flow and on a wide range of elastic, elasto-plastic and stability analyses; the sections on steady state and transient flow have been extended to make whole chapters; there is more detail on coupled problems; eigenvalue analysis has a chapter to itself; and additional methods are given for the solution of differential equations. A text which shows how to develop computer programs which solve specific engineering problems using the finite element method. It enables students to assemble their own computer programs to produce numerical results to solve their problems. This is the third edition of this title, which has been completely revised. "Provides an updated version of Fortran 2003 (all the Fortran programs and subroutines are listed in full in the text but will also be made available online)"--