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We shall now take the ideas from previous chapters and put together such that we can solve PDEs using the flexible finite element basis functions. This is quite a machinery with many details, but the chapter is mostly an assembly of concepts and details we have already met.
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Langtangen, H.P., Mardal, KA. (2019). Variational Formulations with Finite Elements. In: Introduction to Numerical Methods for Variational Problems. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23788-2_5
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