A New Method for Contour Plotting in Finite Element Analysis -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

A New Method for Contour Plotting in Finite Element Analysis

Authors

M. Twu

B. Wang

Organization:

Harbin Institute of Technology

Journal / Anthology

Computers & Structures

Year:

1992

Volume:

Issue:

5/6

Page range:

1097-1102

Description

A simple method has been developed in order to get a contour plot in an element with given nodal values. The contour lines are obtained by solving a differential equation obtained from the shape function using symbolic computation. This method can be applied to any kind of shape (interpolation) function of a two-dimensional element.

Subject

Engineering > Finite Element Methods

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