Many students, engineers, scientists and researchers havebenefited from the practical, programming-oriented style of theprevious editions of Programming the Finite Element Method,learning how to develop computer programs to solve specificengineering problems using the finite element method.

This new fifth edition offers timely revisions that includeprograms and subroutine libraries fully updated to Fortran 2003,which are freely available online, and provides updated material onadvances in parallel computing, thermal stress analysis, plasticityreturn algorithms, convection boundary conditions, and interfacesto third party tools such as ParaView, METIS and ARPACK.  Asin the previous editions, a wide variety of problem solvingcapabilities are presented including structural analysis,elasticity and plasticity, construction processes in geomechanics,uncoupled and coupled steady and transient fluid flow and linearand nonlinear solid dynamics.

Key features:

• Updated to take into account advances in parallelcomputing  as well as new material on thermal stressanalysis
• Programs use an updated version of Fortran 2003
• Includes exercises for students
• Accompanied by website hosting software

Programming the FiniteElement Method, Fifth Edition is an ideal textbook forundergraduate and postgraduate students in civil and mechanicalengineering, applied mathematics and numerical analysis, and isalso a comprehensive reference for researchers and practitioners.

Further information and source codes described in this text canbe accessed at the following web sites:
• www.inside.mines.edu/~vgriffit/PFEM5 for the serial programs from Chapters 4-11
• www.parafem.org.ukfor the parallel programs from Chapter 12