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achieved from over-the-counter books. So to add more MATLAB support, I
decided to write a short primer about vector calculus representations and
computations in MATLABFEMLAB for the appendix. This project could
easily get out of hand, so I apologize for abridging it for convenience.
MATLAB was never intended for vector calculus directly, but it is fundamental
to PDEs and therefore to FEMLAB.
Enjoy the journey through this book. As it is an odyssey, the destination is
not the focus. Certainly the reader, however, has a concrete objective in
modeling for wanting to use FEMLAB. Perhaps somewhere in this odyssey you
will find tools to bring to bear on your problem and will find useful in reaching
your objective.

References

[I] SV Patankar, Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow. Hemisphere Publishing
corporation, New York, 1980.
[2] SB Pope, Turbulent Flows, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
[3] MATLAB demonstration version can be found at http://www.mathworks.com
[4] FEMLAB demonstration CD-ROM can be requested at http://www.comsol.com
[5] WBJ Zimmerman, http://eyrie.shef.ac.uWfemlab
[6] WB J Zimmerman, http://eyrie.shef.ac.uWfluidics