Introduction

This appendix suggests some laboratory work to accompany Finite Elements for Electrical Engineers. As a convenience to readers, all the computer programs listed in the book are available through the Internet (by anonymous FTP) and the authors are also prepared to furnish them on an MS-DOS diskette. This appendix could therefore be viewed as a user's manual to accompany the programs. While it mainly deals with how they might best be used in an MS-DOS environment, the program source code is written in standard Fortran 77, is not restricted to MS-DOS and will work equally well under various Unix, VMS or other computing systems.

Note: The programs and related data in this book are copyright material, like all other parts of the book. The files provided at the anonymous FTP site, and on the MS-DOS diskette obtainable from the authors, are provided there solely as a convenience for the reader; they remain copyright materials and must be treated on the same basis as this book, except that a security backup copy may be made. In other words, they may be used for personal study but they may not be sold, rented, or reproduced, without the express written permission of the copyright holders. Written permission must be obtained for the programs, tables, data or auxiliary files to be incorporated in any collections, anthologies or software systems.