Finite Element Methods for Engineers
Roger T. Fenner
World Scientific Publishing Company
Professor Fenner's definitive text is now back in print, with  added corrections. It serves as an introduction to finite element  methods for engineering undergraduates and other students at an  equivalent level. Postgraduate and practising engineers will also find  it useful if they are comparatively new to finite element methods.  <P>  The main emphasis is on the simplest methods suitable for solving  two-dimensional continuum mechanics problems, particularly those  encountered in the fields of stress analysis, fluid mechanics and heat  transfer. Complete FORTRAN programs are presented, described and  discussed in detail, and several practical case studies serve to  illustrate the methods developed in the book.  <P>  Finite element methods are compared and contrasted with finite  difference methods, and throughout the level of computer programming,  continuum mechanics, numerical analysis, matrix algebra and other  mathematics employed corresponds to that normally covered in  undergraduate engineering courses.