A brief introduction to MATLAB™

Abstract

MATLAB™ is a programming language. It is widely used for technical computation, programming and visualization of data. The scientists of this generation are taught the use of MATLAB™ in tackling diverse problems. MATLAB will be used to demonstrate the fem process in this book and therefore it is important to offer a brief introduction to MATLAB. This chapter presents an elementary introduction to MATLAB™. For experienced users of MATLAB™, it is okay to skip this chapter. However, if one is not conversant with MATLAB™ then this brief introduction will equip you with skills to understand MATLAB™ and appreciate its in subsequent chapters. The brief introduction will cover manipulation of data, visualization of data as two- and three-dimensional profiles and finally the principles of programming (scripts) development.