Finite element methods for engineers - Softcover

Fenner, Roger T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860940161 ISBN 13: 9781860940163

Publisher: Icp, 1996

Synopsis

Professor Fenner's definitive text is now back in print, with added corrections. It serves as an introduction to finite element methods for engineering undergraduates and other students at an equivalent level. Postgraduate and practising engineers will also find it useful if they are comparatively new to finite element methods. The main emphasis is on the simplest methods suitable for solving two-dimensional continuum mechanics problems, particularly those encountered in the fields of stress analysis, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Complete FORTRAN programs are presented, described and discussed in detail, and several practical case studies serve to illustrate the methods developed in the book.Finite element methods are compared and contrasted with finite difference methods, and throughout the level of computer programming, continuum mechanics, numerical analysis, matrix algebra and other mathematics employed corresponds to that normally covered in undergraduate engineering courses.

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Published by Imperial College Press and distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co.

About this edition

• Publisher: Icp
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1860940161
• ISBN 13: 9781860940163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190