Professor Aslak Tveito is the managing director of Simula Research Laboratory. His research is focused on computing the electrical activity in the heart. Tveito is the co-author of more than 60 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, and one textbook introducing partial differential equations. Tveito has also edited four books published internationally. Professor Hans Petter Langtangen is the director of Center for Biomedical Computing, a Norwegian Center of Excellence at Simula Research Laboratory, and a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo. His research concerns numerical methods and software tools for continuum mechanical problems. Langtangen has published more than 40 journal papers, and more than 50 peer-reviewed contributions to conference proceedings and books. He is the author of three textbooks and an a co-editor of three books. Langtangen has been an active developer of open source and commercial software systems for computational sciences. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial board of five leading international journals. Dr. Nielsen is a research scientist at Simula Research Laboratory where he investigates whether it is possible to compute the position and size of heart infarctions from ECG recordings. He has published a number of papers on computational mathematics and during his years at Norwegian Computing Center he solved many scientific computing problems for the Norwegian oil industry. The research interests of Professor Xing Cai center around parallel numerical methods and software for solving partial differential equations. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Definitive and authoritative guide to FEniCS programming

Revised, expanded and improved version of the very popular FEniCS Tutorial chapter that many users have enjoyed for the last 5 years

Teaches how to program advanced finite element solvers for challenging applications in just minutes, including basic Python programming, finite element methodology and its application to a range of fundamental PDE models

Comes with a series of example programs that demonstrate fundamental techniques

Can be used as a starting point for readers who want to implement their own PDE solvers

Includes supplementary material: [...]

1 Preliminaries.- 2 Fundamentals: Solving the Poisson Equation.- 3 A Gallery of Finite Element Solvers.- 4 Subdomains and Boundary Conditions.- 5 Extensions: Improving the Poisson Solver.- References.