Programming Finite Elements in Java™

Gennadiy Nikishkov got his PhD and DSci degrees from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Technical University) in computational mechanics. He held a professorship at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He also had visiting positions at Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Karlsruhe Research Center (Germany), RIKEN Institute of Physical, Chemical Research (Japan) and GKSS Research Center (Germany) and University of California at Los Angeles (USA). Currently Gennadiy Nikishkov is a Professor at the University of Aizu (Japan). His activities and research interests include computational mechanics, computational fracture mechanics, computational nanomechanics, development of finite element and boundary element codes, scientific visualization and computer graphics. For many years he taught courses on computational modeling using the finite element method.

Finite Element Formulation.- Finite Element Equations for Heat Transfer.- FEM for Solid Mechanics Problems.- Finite Element Program.- Finite Element Solution.- Finite Element Processor.- Finite Element Model.- Elastic Material.- Elements.- Numerical Integration.- Two-dimensional Isoparametric Elements.- Implementation of Two-dimensional Quadratic Element.- Three-dimensional Isoparametric Elements.- Implementation of Three-dimensional Quadratic Element.- Assembly and Solution.- Direct Equation Solver.- Iterative Equation Solver.- Load Data and Load Vector Assembly.- Stress Increment, Residual Vector and Results.- Elastic–Plastic Problems.- Mesh Generation.- Mesh Generator.- Two-dimensional Mesh Generators.- Generation of Three-dimensional Meshes by Sweeping.- Pasting Mesh Blocks.- Mesh Transformations.- Copying, Writing and Reading Mesh Blocks.- Visualization of Meshes and Results.- to Java 3D™.- Visualizer.- Visualization Scene Graph.- Surface Geometry.- Edge and Face Subdivision.- Surface Subdivision.- Results Field, Color Scale, Interaction and Lights.