In the industry, 70% of an engineer's time is spent on pre-processing (meshing). Gokhale’s book excels here by offering practical guidelines on: When to use 1D, 2D, or 3D elements.
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Nitin Gokhale saw this trajectory and realized that the industry was heading toward a crisis of confidence. He recognized that software manuals taught users which buttons to click , but they failed to teach what happened behind the screen .