A practical introduction to finite element analysis of electromagnetic problems
An attempt is made in this paper to bring the finite element method to a wider audience of undergraduate and graduate students through an approach that focuses on the design of the preprocessor, the solver and the postprocessor. Typical Fortran code is cited to illustrate the elegance of the method.
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