University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Colloquium

Bertil Walden

Mathworks Company

April 27, 2000


Abstract: FEMLAB is a general software package for modelling applied physics problems in MATLAB. FEMLAB is built for modelling in many different fields, such as Electromagenetics, Chemical Reactors, Structural Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics. Specifically, FEMLAB supports the integration of problems from different fields - multiphysics - and integration with dynamical systems through SIMULINK. FEMLAB uses the Finite Element Method for space discretization, and the method of lines for time discretization. FEMLAB has advanced mesh adaption capabilities, and includes a multigrid solver.