An Analysis of the Finite Element Method
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2008
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-9802327-0-7 (ISBN)
Description
A classic in the understanding of finite elements, updated to include examples, codes and exercises to connect theory to application.
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Edition
2nd UK edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Wellesley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 184 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
883 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9802327-0-7 (9780980232707)
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Additional editions
Gilbert Strang | George Fix
An Analysis of the Finite Element Method
Book
02/2018
Wellesley-Cambridge Press,U.S.
€109.12
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Persons
Gilbert Strang received his Ph.D. from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. Professor Strang has published eight textbooks. He received the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Henrici Prize for applied analysis. The first Su Buchin Prize from the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Haimo Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, were awarded for his contributions to teaching around the world.
Content
Introduction to the second edition; Foreword to the 1997 edition; Preface; Part I: 1. An introduction to the theory; A summary of the theory; 3. Approximation; 4. Variational crimes, 5. Stability; 6. Eigenvalue problems; 7. Initial-value problems; 8. Singularities; Bibliography; Index of notations; Index; Part II: 9. Finite elements in one dimension; 10. The finite element method in 2D and 3D; 11. Errors in projections and eigenvalues; 12. Mixed finite elements: velocity and pressure; Appendix A. Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Appendix B. Fast Poisson solvers; Index for chapters 9-12 and appendices A and B.