Finite Elements in Physics: Proceedings of the 1st European Graduate Summer Course on Computational Physics

This volume contains the proceedings of the first Graduate Summer School on Computational Physics on ``Finite Elements in Physics'', organised by the Computational Physics Group of the European Physical Society (EPS). The main idea of these graduate courses is to present physicists with a specific numerical domain, starting from basic theory and moving to the more advanced applications. The proceedings present a basic course on the finite element method and include descriptions of all the 1 and 2 dimensional triangular and quadrangular linear quadratic and cubic conforming elements with their convergence properties.