General information:
Lecture and exercise notes can be retrieved at Stud.Ip.
Content:
- Introduction
- Motivation
- Hierarchic shape functions
- Mapping functions
- Computation of element matrices, assembly, constraint enforcement and solution
- Convergence characteristics
- Mechanical models and finite elements for thin-walled structures
- Computation of thin-walled structures
- Error estimation and hp-adaptivity
- High-order fictitious domain methods
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students are able to
- give an overview of the different (h, p, hp) finite element procedures.
- explain high-order finite element procedures.
- specify problems of finite element procedures, to identify them in a given situation and to explain their mathematical and mechanical background.
Capabilities
Students are able to
- apply high-order finite elements to problems of structural mechanics.
- select for a given problem of structural mechanics a suitable finite element procedure.
- critically judge results of high-order finite elements.
- transfer their knowledge of high-order finite elements to new problems.
