The application of simultaneous elimination and back-substitution method (SEBSM) in finite element method
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new method called simultaneous elimination and back-substitution method (SEBSM) to solve a system of linear equations as a new finite element method (FEM) solver.
Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, a new technique assembling the global stiffness matrix will be proposed and meanwhile the direct method SEBSM will be applied to solve the equations formed in FEM.
Findings
The SEBSM solver for FEM with the present assembling technique has distinct advantages in both computational time and memory space occupation over the conventional methods, such as the Gauss elimination and LU decomposition methods.
Originality/value
The developed solver requires less memory space no matter the coefficient matrix is a typical sparse matrix or not, and it is applicable to both symmetric and unsymmetrical linear systems of equations. The processes of assembling matrix and dealing with constraints are straightforward, so it is convenient for coding. Compared to the previous solvers, the proposed solver has favorable universality and good performances.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (11172055, 11302040), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014T70244), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT15RC(4)39) and the Project about Star of Science and Technology in Dalian (2015R046).
Citation
Liu, Y., Lv, J. and Gao, X. (2016), "The application of simultaneous elimination and back-substitution method (SEBSM) in finite element method", Engineering Computations, Vol. 33 No. 8, pp. 2339-2355. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-10-2015-0287
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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