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Theory and practice of finite elements. (English) Zbl 1059.65103
Applied Mathematical Sciences 159. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 0-387-20574-8/hbk). xiii, 524 p. (2004).
This book is an expanded version of Lecture Notes published by the authors in French (2002; Zbl 0993.65123). It has been used as a textbook for graduate finite element courses at various French universities and at the University of Texas in Austin. The book can be used in several courses in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering programs. The authors offer suggestions for course titles and syllabi.
The book is organized into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 and 2) reviews the theoretical foundations of the finite element method. The second and third parts are devoted to the practice of finite elements. The second part (Chapters 3 to 6) deals with partial differential equation based applications of finite elements. The third part (Chapters 7 to 10) covers implementation aspects. Two appendices summarize the main mathemaical concepts used in this book: Banach and Hilbert spaces; Banach operators: distributions; and Sobolev spaces.
This book is not an exhaustive monograph and always tries to remain at the graduate level. Some aspects of the finite element method are only briefly mentioned or simply alluded to (e.g., the $$p$$- and $$hp$$-versions of the method and the use of hierachical settings). Many bibliographic entries to the extensive literature on finite elements are given throughout the book.

##### MSC:
 65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs 65N50 Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs 35A35 Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs 65F10 Iterative numerical methods for linear systems 65M60 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics 76D07 Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows 35J25 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations 35K15 Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations 35Q30 Navier-Stokes equations 65-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to numerical analysis 76M10 Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics 65Y05 Parallel numerical computation 65M15 Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 65N12 Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs 65M12 Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 78M10 Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory 80M10 Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer