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Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) are important tools for mathematical modellers in a wide variety of fields. Indeed, many important advances in structural mechanics, atmospheric modelling, nuclear reactor design, electrostatics, and chemical engineering have depended on the ability to solve elliptic equations quickly and accurately. As a result, much research activity in the past 30 years has been directed at improving numerical methods for this class of problems, and the fruits of some of this work may now be found in the growing collection of general-purpose mathematical software for solving elliptic problems [Boisvert and Sweet, 1984]. Our aim in this book is to describe one such package in detail.
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Rice, J.R., Boisvert, R.F. (1985). Introduction. In: Solving Elliptic Problems Using ELLPACK. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5018-0_1
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