Finite Element Methods

The Finite Element Method is a numerical technique that solves partial differential equations by discretizing a spatial domain into finite elements and assembling their local approximations into a global system of algebraic equations through variational principles.

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13.7K

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  1. TB
    Ted Belytschko

    Northwestern University, United States

    212 publications · 64K citations

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  2. TJ
    Thomas J.R. Hughes

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    130 publications · 41.2K citations

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  3. IB
    Ivo Babuška

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    172 publications · 32.8K citations

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  4. TR
    Timon Rabczuk

    Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

    115 publications · 17K citations

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    O. C. Zienkiewicz

    Swansea University, United Kingdom

    99 publications · 18.9K citations

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  2. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

    3.1K publications · 261.6K citations

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  3. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

    1.5K publications · 123.7K citations

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  4. Journal of Computational Physics

    1.4K publications · 116.6K citations

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  5. Mathematics of Computation

    MCOM · 993 publications · 111.6K citations

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See also

Finite Element Methods

Core Methods

Applications

Element Types

Solver Techniques

Error Analysis