Assembling mass matrix for transient heat conduction pde

mercredi 2 avril 2014

I have derived the weak form of the transient heat conduction equation (for FEM) and I am having trouble trying to assemble the mass matrix



This is the PDE:

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\frac{\partial U}{\partial t} = \alpha \nabla^2U

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This is the equation for the mass matrix for an element:

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M^e = \int \Psi \Psi^T dx

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where psi is a matrix containing the shape functions of the element.



I am quite new to FEM so I am not sure how the mass matrix is supposed to be assembled, I understand that I have to use the gauss quadrature to complete the integral but I just can't figure how the matrix containing the shape functions is assembled (i.e. I don't know what numbers go where)



Any help would be greatly appreciated.





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