The birth of the finite element method and of computational mechanics

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-10

  Zienkiewicz, O C ^a,b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Finite element method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENGINEERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INTEGRATED; MATHEMATICAL PROCEDURES; VARIETY; WRITER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COMPUTER SYSTEM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 2342529908     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.951     Document Type: Article

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