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Rahman, Talal; Valdman, Jan

Fast MATLAB assembly of FEM matrices in 2D and 3D: nodal elements. (English) Zbl 1288.65169

Appl. Math. Comput. 219, No. 13, 7151-7158 (2013).
Summary: We propose an effective and flexible way to assemble finite element stiffness and mass matrices in MATLAB. The major loops in the code have been vectorized using the so called array operation in MATLAB, and no low level languages like the C or Fortran has been used for the purpose. The implementation is based on having the vectorization part separated, in other words hidden, from the original code thereby preserving its original structure, and its flexibility as a finite element code. The code is fast and scalable with respect to time.

Cited in 22 Documents

MSC:

65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

Keywords:

MATLAB code vectorization; finite elements; stiffness; mass matrices; software MATLAB

Software:

Matlab; SERF2DMatLab; na14; DistMesh; p1afem
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\textit{T. Rahman} and \textit{J. Valdman}, Appl. Math. Comput. 219, No. 13, 7151--7158 (2013; Zbl 1288.65169)
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