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Boundry Condn For Stiffness Matrix

The document discusses incorporating boundary conditions into the finite element method formulation of solving the differential equation -Δu(x) = f(x). It presents the weak formulation integrating by parts to move the derivatives from the test functions φi to the approximate solution u~, resulting in additional boundary terms. These boundary terms are accounted for by modifying the source term vector b to include the boundary condition values at x=0 and x=1, allowing the boundary conditions to influence the solution through the inhomogeneous term.

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Boundry Condn For Stiffness Matrix

The document discusses incorporating boundary conditions into the finite element method formulation of solving the differential equation -Δu(x) = f(x). It presents the weak formulation integrating by parts to move the derivatives from the test functions φi to the approximate solution u~, resulting in additional boundary terms. These boundary terms are accounted for by modifying the source term vector b to include the boundary condition values at x=0 and x=1, allowing the boundary conditions to influence the solution through the inhomogeneous term.

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Boundary conditions - sources

... let us start restating the problem ...

u ( x) f ( x)

... which we turned into the following formulation ...

c dx f dx
n

i 1

u~ ci i
N

i 1

with b.c.

... assuming ...

u~ ci i u (0)1 u (1) N
N 1
i 2

where u(0) and u(1) are the values at the boundaries of the domain [0,1].
How is this incorporated into the algorithm?
Finite element method

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Boundary conditions

c dx f dx
n

i 1

u ( x) f ( x)

... which we turned into the following formulation ...

c dx f dx u (0) dx u (1) dx
n 1
i2

... in pictorial form ...

AT

= g

boundary condition

source heterogeneity (f)

boundary condition
... the system feels the boundary conditions through the (modified) source term
Finite element method

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