Object Reservoir Discusses the Difference and Benefits of Finite Element Methods over Finite Difference Methods
(E&P magazine)Computer modeling and simulation is common in many industries today. In the early days of computing, simulation replaced physical experimentation only in simple cases where the simulations executed faster than the associated physical experiments. Since the late 1970s, however, advances in numerical modeling and the use of finite element methods (FEM) to model all types of systems has mostly displaced older, inflexible finite difference (FD) techniques in many industries.
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