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Colloquium: Thomas J.R. Hughes, University of Texas at Austin, The Finite Element Method and Computational Mechanics: Past, Present, and a Vision of the Future
Colloquium: Thomas J.R. Hughes, University of Texas at Austin, The Finite Element Method and Computational Mechanics: Past, Present, and a Vision of the Future
I will begin by probing into the past to discover the origins of the Finite Element Method (FEM), and then trace the evolution of those early developments to the present day in which the FEM is ubiquitous in science, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, and the most important discretization technology in Computational Mechanics. However, despite its…