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What is the difference between Computational Science and Data Science?
Awarded Aug 2, 2016 at 2:00
Gauss-Seidel, SOR in practice?
Awarded Jul 26, 2016 at 23:25
Recommendations for a usable, fast GPL-compatible derivative-free numerical optimization library that can be interfaced to C++
Awarded Jul 23, 2016 at 1:49
Intuitive motivation for BFGS update
Awarded Jul 21, 2016 at 0:17
Small, unpredictable results in runs of a deterministic model
Awarded Jul 21, 2016 at 0:17
Adaptive gradient descent step size when you can't do a line search
Awarded Jul 16, 2016 at 22:15
Need a simple mesh format (for FEA) and a tool to generate the mesh
Awarded Jun 29, 2016 at 7:08
Why does SciPy eigsh() produce erroneous eigenvalues in case of harmonic oscillator?
Awarded Jun 23, 2016 at 15:18
Recommendation for Finite Difference Method in Scientific Python
Awarded Jun 23, 2016 at 4:36
Analog of perfectly matched layers for finite element methods
Awarded Jun 8, 2016 at 15:34
Repeatedly solving $\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x} = \mathbf{b}$ with same $\mathbf{A}$, different $\mathbf{b}$
Awarded May 27, 2016 at 19:39
Optimize an unknown function which can be evaluated only?
Awarded May 20, 2016 at 20:05
Why should non-convexity be a problem in optimization?
Awarded May 14, 2016 at 7:25
ODEs vs DAE vs ADE?
Awarded Apr 26, 2016 at 7:21
Scientific Programming Contests
Awarded Apr 22, 2016 at 14:40
Universities known for computational physics
Awarded Apr 20, 2016 at 14:22
Intro to DG Finite Element methods
Awarded Apr 1, 2016 at 8:23
What is a good way to run parameter studies in C++
Awarded Mar 29, 2016 at 16:22
Object-oriented programming on finite difference method
Awarded Mar 28, 2016 at 17:52
What are differences between 'a priori' and 'posteriori' error estimate in numerical analysis?
Awarded Feb 25, 2016 at 19:28
Define custom probability density function in Python
Awarded Feb 24, 2016 at 20:55
How to compare runtimes of two algorithms in a reproducible way
Awarded Feb 23, 2016 at 17:26
Crank-Nicolson method for solving nonlinear parabolic PDEs
Awarded Feb 17, 2016 at 12:42
BFGS vs. Conjugate Gradient Method
Awarded Feb 16, 2016 at 14:40
Can compressible flow solvers be used to solve incompressible flow?
Awarded Feb 16, 2016 at 7:32
Complexity of matrix inversion in numpy
Awarded Feb 12, 2016 at 9:45
About faster approximation of log(x)
Awarded Jan 6, 2016 at 20:39
Smallest eigenvalue without inverse
Awarded Jan 5, 2016 at 22:50
Using global variables when doing scientific computing
Awarded Dec 23, 2015 at 5:30
Matlab : Is there a way to programatically safely halt code execution (like FORTRAN's stop)?
Awarded Dec 21, 2015 at 14:15
Hardware performance, floating point functions
Awarded Dec 17, 2015 at 17:54
Are there Improved ways of computing $p \log(p)$?
Awarded Dec 9, 2015 at 23:49
What is the general idea of Nitsche's method in numerical analysis?
Awarded Dec 3, 2015 at 19:23
How can one parallelize a multigrid method for solving a linear system of equations?
Awarded Nov 11, 2015 at 19:05
Does the "cofactor technique" for inverting a matrix have any practical significance?
Awarded Nov 7, 2015 at 18:11
cost function: why use power of two ? abs(x - xhat) / x better?
Awarded Nov 6, 2015 at 16:44
Applying the Runge-Kutta method to second order ODEs
Awarded Oct 30, 2015 at 16:09
Publishing a software package along with a paper: licensing
Awarded Oct 9, 2015 at 21:03
Is there a constrained nonlinear optimization library like IPOPT that runs on GPUs?
Awarded Oct 8, 2015 at 3:04
What is the origin of the preasymptotic convergence behaviour in FEM?
Awarded Oct 1, 2015 at 9:00
Can a numerical scheme be used to determine the well-posedness of an initial or boundary value problem?
Awarded Sep 25, 2015 at 20:57
What are possible methods to solve compressible Euler equations
Awarded Sep 11, 2015 at 2:22
Catastrophic cancellation in logsum
Awarded Sep 3, 2015 at 21:04
cancellation problem in float-point numbers
Awarded Aug 5, 2015 at 0:56
How does one determine the point group of a molecule?
Awarded Aug 4, 2015 at 7:50
Forcing an ODE solver to preserve the norm
Awarded Jul 17, 2015 at 4:12
Spectral Methods in time
Awarded Jul 8, 2015 at 0:13
Should I rent computing resources, or buy my own computers
Awarded Jun 5, 2015 at 6:10
How exactly does the *full* multigrid algorithm run?
Awarded May 28, 2015 at 10:09
Examples of numerical solution of stochastic differential equation(SDE)?
Awarded May 25, 2015 at 23:08
Numerically stable approach for calculating x in Ax=b
Awarded May 19, 2015 at 13:50
in matlab, what differences are between linsolve and mldivide?
Awarded May 8, 2015 at 13:09
Does the matrix condition number affect accuracy of iterative linear solvers?
Awarded Apr 25, 2015 at 1:41
What is the relationship of BLAS, LAPACK, and other linear algebra libraries?
Awarded Apr 21, 2015 at 7:34
Understanding the Wolfe Conditions for an Inexact line search
Awarded Apr 16, 2015 at 13:36
Are direct solvers affected by the condition number of a matrix?
Awarded Apr 4, 2015 at 21:07
How to add large exponential terms reliably without overflow errors?
Awarded Mar 27, 2015 at 22:32
What are the differences between CFD simulations and realistic ocean/atmosphere model simulations?
Awarded Jan 20, 2015 at 19:53
Which linear algebra texts should I read before learning numerical linear algebra?
Awarded Jan 16, 2015 at 23:35
Solution of quartic equation
Awarded Dec 12, 2014 at 17:29
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