Introduction to Numerical Methods for Variational Problems

• Main Authors: Langtangen, Hans Petter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Mardal, Kent-Andre (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 21
• Subjects: Computer mathematics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

This textbook teaches finite element methods from a computational point of view. It focuses on how to develop flexible computer programs with Python, a programming language in which a combination of symbolic and numerical tools is used to achieve an explicit and practical derivation of finite elemen...