[R-sig-dyn-mod] Question on Galerkin

Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:37 AM #

Hi,

As a (frequent) user of (simple, beams only) FEM I'm right now trying to dig a bit deeper into the underlying methods/concepts using Mathematica, R and several Fortran codes, e.g. Colorado School of Mines (Smith, Griffiths), our own developed toolset (both driven from R) and, on the side, several others (e.g. FEAPpv, Matrix Frame).

Recently I've been thinking about packaging our own toolset as an R package.

Before I do that, I've seen a reference to collocation in the 'Solving Differential Equations in R'  intro (page 6, top right, Bader & Ascher). I'm wondering if it is conceivable to add the method='Galerkin' to e.g. ode. Or is FEM/Galerkin considered so different or specific that this should not be contemplated?

Any feedback or pointers to books/intro's are very much appreciated.

Regards,
Rob Goedman

Soetaert, Karline

Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:45 AM #

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