Computational Solid Mechanics

While for the last 18 years of his career the author taught high school mathematics and computer science, his background is in engineering, specifically, in compuational solid mechanics. These pages contain materials that the author began working on during the pandemic of 2020. While much of this material is quite standard, some of it, at least to the author's knowledge, is probably new (or at least not well known): among these are the boundary element method for classical plate theory, and what the author calls the cell method.

The Finite Element Method

This page contains theory documents, and source codes, for Poisson's equation, two-dimensional linear elasticity, classical plate theory, three-dimensional finite elasticity (polymer drawing), and axisymmetric finite elasticity (polymer drawing).

The Boundary Element Method

This page contains theory documents, and source codes, for Poisson's equation, two-dimensional linear elasticity, and classical plate theory.

The Cell Method

This page contains theory documents, and source codes, for Poisson's equation, two-dimensional linear elasticity, and classical plate theory.