I. M. Smith & D. V. Griffiths 
Programming the Finite Element Method 

Many students, engineers, scientists and researchers have
benefited from the practical, programming-oriented style of the
previous editions of Programming the Finite Element Method,
learning how to develop computer programs to solve specific
engineering problems using the finite element method.

This new fifth edition offers timely revisions that include
programs and subroutine libraries fully updated to Fortran 2003,
which are freely available online, and provides updated material on
advances in parallel computing, thermal stress analysis, plasticity
return algorithms, convection boundary conditions, and interfaces
to third party tools such as Para View, METIS and ARPACK. As
in the previous editions, a wide variety of problem solving
capabilities are presented including structural analysis,
elasticity and plasticity, construction processes in geomechanics,
uncoupled and coupled steady and transient fluid flow and linear
and nonlinear solid dynamics.

Key features:

* Updated to take into account advances in parallel
computing as well as new material on thermal stress
analysis

* Programs use an updated version of Fortran 2003

* Includes exercises for students

* Accompanied by website hosting software

Programming the Finite
Element Method, Fifth Edition is an ideal textbook for
undergraduate and postgraduate students in civil and mechanical
engineering, applied mathematics and numerical analysis, and is
also a comprehensive reference for researchers and practitionersstyle=’mso-bidi-font-style: normal;’>.

Further information and source codes described in this text can
be accessed at the following web sites:

* href=’http://www.inside.mines.edu/~vgriffit’>www.inside.mines.edu/~vgriffit
/PFEM5 for the serial programs from Chapters 4-11

* www.parafem.org.uk
for the parallel programs from Chapter 12

About the author

Ian M. Smith and Lee Margetts, University of Manchester, UK and D. V. Griffiths, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Professor Ian Smith is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester. He is a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering and has 200 published research papers. He has authored 5 books, the latest Boundary Element Method with Programming (Springer 2008).

D.V Griffiths is Professor of Civil Engineering, Division of Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. His research focuses on oil resource geomechanics, probabilistic geotechnics, soil mechanics and foundation engineering, finite element software development.

Dr Lee Margetts is Head of Synthetic Environments at the University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute. Dr Margetts’ main areas of expertise are in structural mechanics, geotechnical engineering, high performance computing and tomographic imaging. His main research activities concern investigating how real materials behave (both organic and inorganic) and how this can be simulated using computers.