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### Usefulness of elements with mesh-dependent stability

After doing some mathematics related to the stability of elements in 3D Stokes problem I was slightly shocked to realize that $P_2-P_1$ is not stable for an arbitrary tetrahedral mesh. More precisely, ...
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### Why are Octrees used for Multipole space decomposition?

In most (all?) implementations of the Fast Multipole Method (FMM), octrees are used to decompose the relevant domain. Theoretically, octrees provide a simple volumetric bound, which is useful for ...
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### Comparing Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel methods for nonlinear iterations

It is well known that for certain linear systems Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel iterative methods have the same convergence behavior, e.g. Stein-Rosenberg Theorem. I am wondering if similar results exist for ...
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### Danger of complex arithmetics in scientific computing

The complex inner product $\langle u,v\rangle$ has two different definitions decided by conventions: $\bar{u}^Tv$ or $u^T\bar{v}$. In BLAS, I found the routines cdotu, zdotu, and cdotc, zdotc. The ...
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### Verification in Eigenvalue problems

Let us start with a problem of the form $$(\mathcal{L} + k^2) u=0$$ with a set of given boundary conditions (Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, Periodic, Bloch-Periodic). This corresponds with finding the ...
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### Operator Splitting methods for DAEs

After doing some research, I've found that most of the literature on operator splitting methods (e.g. Strang Splitting, Fractional Step, etc.) are specifically designed for a standard problem type of ...
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### scale invariance for line-search and trust region algorithms

In Nocedal & Wright's book on Numerical Optimization, there is a statement in section 2.2 (page 27), "Generally speaking, it is easier to preserve scale invariance for line search algorithms than ...
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### Guidelines for nested preconditioners

Consider the situation where you want to solve a linear system using a preconditioned Krylov method, but applying the preconditioner itself involves solving an auxiliary system, which is done with ...
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### Simple turbulence model appropriate for buoyancy-driven cavity like problem

Which turbulence model is suitable for resolving incompressible buoyancy-driven flow of a fluid within an cylindrical ampoule? I prefer turbulence model which is sufficiently simple so that fully ...
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### What's a good numerical/optimization software package for solving the 2-D optimal stopping problem?

I am looking for a numerical software package to help me solve the 2-dimensional "free boundary" PDEs that arise in optimal stopping problems. In one dimension a standard optimal stopping problem in ...

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