Deriving Finite Element Equations Using Weighted Residual Method - Least Squares Approach
Deriving Finite Element Equations Using Weighted Residual Method - Least Squares Approach
functions)
b) Satisfy the boundary conditions
c) Satisfy the differential equation with trail solution(error is residual)
d) Minimize the residual over the whole domain to obtain equations.
Engineering Problems & Governing Differential
Equations:
Integral formulation: The equation derived using an energy
2. Variational Approach
4. Galerkin Method
Objective:
Deriving finite element equation using weighted residual method-
a) Problem formulation
c1and c2 are unknown constants & f1(x) and f2(x) are trail
functions
Consider the beam deflection problem. The governing
differential equation is
y(0) = 0,y(L) = 0.
where
Approach
Assume an approximate solution satisfying the boundary
taken as
R 2 = C12(4-4x+x2-2x3+x4)+c22(4-24x+40x2-16x3+13x4-
2x5+x6)+2c1c2(-4+14x-16x2+9x3-2x4-x5)-2c1x+c1x2-
c1x3+2c2-6c2x2+c2x3-c2x4)
dx = 0.033c12+3.74c22-2(0.65)c1c2-0.91c1+0.05c2
Φ(x)= -5.62x(1-x)-0.188x2(1-x)
CONCLUSION
More widely used than collocation and Subdomain,