The Finite Element Method (SF2561), Fall 2014

[Work in progress]

Course goals

The goal of this course is to give basic knowledge of the theory and practice of the finite element method and its application to solve the partial differential equations of physics and engineering sciences. The purpose is to give a balanced combination of theoretical and practical skills. The theoretical part is mainly concerned with the derivation of finite element formulations, estimating the discretisation error and to use error estimates to adaptively refine the mesh. The practical part deals with computer implementation of the method: matrix and vector assembly, numerical integration, etc.

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Teacher

Johan Hoffman 

Office hours

Mondays 9:00-10:00 (Office 4429, Lindstedtsvägen 5) 

Literature

Course book (CDE): Eriksson, Estep, Hansbo, Johnson, "Computational Differential Equations", Studentlitteratur, (ISBN ISBN 91-44-49311-8), 1996. [Bokus] [Studentlitteratur]

Software

Puffin (simple Matlab/Octave FEM software)

FEniCS (advanced Python/C++ FEM software)

Extra material

Further reading

MSc projects

Preliminary week plan

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