The ESRD Blog

“From Legacy Finite Element Modeling to Explainable Simulation: Technical Requirements for XAI in Computational Mechanics”, a technical paper authored by ESRD Co-founder and Chairman Dr. Barna Szabó, was recently published in Computational Mechanics and is available to all as an open-access article. This paper discusses technical requirements posed by Explainable AI (XAI), methods for controlling both model-form and discretization errors in AI-assisted simulation, and model-centric vs. element-centric implementations.

Bridging the Gap is not just a book about numerical simulations, it’s a call to rethink how we understand them. While engineers run algorithms and mathematicians build them, a persistent divide between the two disciplines continues to limit the full potential of finite element analysis (FEA). Drawing on years of teaching and collaboration with industry professionals, the author exposes how vague terminology, entrenched assumptions, and stagnant modeling practices have created barriers to progress.