fem1d


fem1d, a MATLAB code which applies the finite element method (FEM) to a linear two point boundary value problem (BVP) in one spatial dimension.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

fem1d is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

bvp4c_test, a MATLAB code which illustrates how to use the MATLAB command bvp4c(), which can solve boundary value problems (BVP's) in one spatial dimension.

fem1d, a data directory which contains examples of 1D FEM files, three text files that describe a 1D finite element model;

fem1d_test

fem1d_adaptive, a MATLAB code which applies the finite element method to a linear two point boundary value problem in a 1D region, using adaptive refinement to improve the solution.

fem1d_bvp_linear, a MATLAB code which applies the finite element method, with piecewise linear elements, to a two point boundary value problem in one spatial dimension.

fem1d_display, a MATLAB code which reads three files defining a 1D arbitrary degree finite element function, and displays a plot.

fem1d_function_10_display, a MATLAB code which reads a prefix defining three finite element data files, reads the data, samples the finite element function, and displays a plot.

fem1d_lagrange, a MATLAB code which sets up the matrices and vectors associated with the finite element method (FEM) solution of a boundary value problem (BVP) -u''+u=f(x), using Lagrange basis polynomials.

fem1d_nonlinear, a MATLAB code which applies the finite element method to a nonlinear two point boundary value problem in a 1D region.

fem1d_pmethod, a MATLAB code which applies the p-method version of the finite element method to a linear two point boundary value problem in a 1D region.

fem1d_sample, a MATLAB code which samples a scalar or vector finite element function of one variable, defined by FEM files, returning interpolated values at the sample points.

Reference:

  1. Hans Rudolf Schwarz,
    Finite Element Methods,
    Academic Press, 1988,
    ISBN: 0126330107,
    LC: TA347.F5.S3313.
  2. Gilbert Strang, George Fix,
    An Analysis of the Finite Element Method,
    Cambridge, 1973,
    ISBN: 096140888X,
    LC: TA335.S77.
  3. Olgierd Zienkiewicz,
    The Finite Element Method,
    Sixth Edition,
    Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005,
    ISBN: 0750663200,
    LC: TA640.2.Z54

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Last revised on 17 January 2019.