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To: HPilot who wrote (19026)	12/27/2007 2:04:08 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

They can all be derived from the Laws of Thermodynamics or shown to be compatible. As I pointed out, finite element methods are very common mathematical tools used to analyze thermodynamic problems, but this does not mean that FEA is derived from the Laws of Thermodynamics. Their application in heat transfer does apply the laws of thermodynamics and the related equations, but the method of analysis is FEA. Same for Fourier Analysis, which methods are applied in a very wide range of physics & engineering. I had both an undergraduate and a graduate course in Fourier Analysis. I'm very familiar with it. The courses are in fact usually called Fourier Analysis for a reason.