The FEniCS Tutorial

This book gives a concise and gentle introduction to finite element programming in Python based on the popular FEniCS software library. FEniCS can be programmed in both C++ and Python, but this tutorial focuses exclusively on Python programming, since this is the simplest and most effective approach for beginners. After having digested the examples in this tutorial, thereadershouldbeabletolearnmorefromtheFEniCSdocumentation,the numerous demo programs that come with the software, and the comprehensiveFEniCSbookAutomated Solution of Differential Equations by the Finite Element Method