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I'm aware of human "computers" but my recollection was that in the case of Prandtl, it was an application FEM. I did not know FEM wasn't developed at that time
by hydrogen7800 4y ago
I'm aware of human "computers" but my recollection was that in the case of Prandtl, it was an application FEM. I did not know FEM wasn't developed at that time, as this article shows, so it must have been something else.
- adrian_b 4y agoAs a poster above has already said, it might have been a finite difference method, because they solve the same problems. Unlike FEM, finite difference methods have been used right since the origins of differential and integral calculus, with Newton and Leibniz. There are also precursors of the modern FEM, like the Ritz or Galerkin methods, which could have been used by Prandtl.