Using FEM Software Packages
13.1 Introduction
Realistic finite element problems might consist of hundreds of thousands and even several millions of elements and nodes and, therefore, they are usually solved in practice using commercially available software packages. There are currently a large number of commercial software packages available for solving a wide range of problems: Solid and structural mechanics, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, acoustics and multi-physics, which might be static, dynamic, linear or non-linear. Most of these software packages use the FEM as a stand-alone approach or combine it with other numerical methods to solve physical problems. All FEM software packages are developed based on the same basic ...
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