Gauss Quadrature

It seems to me that many practitioners of finite elements are engineers (myself included), as opposed to mathematicians. Part of the mythos of finite elements is Gauss quadrature. We see its name thrown around when discussing integration in finite elements, and we know that it is an efficient scheme. But us engineers don’t necessarily knowContinue reading “Gauss Quadrature”

Monthly update – Jan 2020

January was a bit of a slow month – most of my thesis time was spent on building some exemplar CAD models and constructing example finite element meshes on them. I’ve sent the meshes to the rest of Dr. Scott’s research team to begin discussing maturity of their production code for handling the various volumetricContinue reading “Monthly update – Jan 2020”