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The Second Edition of this bestselling text continues to provide the academic community and industry with up-to-date, authoritative information on the use of the finite element method in the study of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Extensively revised and thoroughly updated, new and expanded material includes discussions on periodic boundary conditions, change of phase, weighted-integral statements and weak forms, interpolation functions, stabilized methods, flow past a submarine, coupled problems, and much more.

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Fluid dynamics — Mathematical models.

Heat — Transmission — Mathematical models.

Finite element method.