Improving modularity in object-oriented finite element programming

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-198

  Dubois Pèlerin, Yves ^a,b   Pegon, Pierre ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Object oriented programming; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPECIFICATIONS;

ANALYSIS SPECIFICATION; FINITE ELEMENT CODE; LEVEL OF MODULARITY; LINEAR EQUATION SYSTEMS; MODULARIZING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031094406     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199703)13:3<193::AID-CNM46>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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