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Good examples of "two is easy, three is hard" in computational sciences
Awarded Nov 12 at 18:04
Why is my iterative linear solver not converging?
Awarded Feb 25, 2023 at 10:21
What are differences between 'a priori' and 'posteriori' error estimate in numerical analysis?
Awarded Oct 15, 2021 at 7:15
Why is local conservation important when solving PDEs?
Awarded Sep 26, 2021 at 14:42
Functional Programming and Scientific Computing
Awarded May 3, 2021 at 22:17
What does "symplectic" mean in reference to numerical integrators, and does SciPy's odeint use them?
Awarded Apr 29, 2021 at 21:52
Are there simple ways to numerically solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation?
Awarded Apr 3, 2021 at 14:36
Is Crank-Nicolson a stable discretization scheme for Reaction-Diffusion-Advection (convection) equation?
Awarded Aug 2, 2020 at 19:11
What are good ways to document scientific software?
Awarded Jul 16, 2020 at 17:56
Scientific standards for numerical errors
Awarded May 30, 2020 at 23:04
How do I take the FFT of unevenly spaced data?
Awarded Jun 13, 2019 at 15:35
How mature is the "Julia" scientific computing language project?
Awarded May 19, 2019 at 4:50
How to choose a method for solving linear equations
Awarded Jan 26, 2018 at 20:49
What are the conceptual differences between the finite element and finite volume method?
Awarded Jun 8, 2017 at 4:16
Modern resources for learning FEM
Awarded Jan 5, 2017 at 21:55
Which software and workflow is recommend for publication of scientific data and graphs?
Awarded Dec 16, 2016 at 10:50
What guidelines should I follow when choosing a sparse linear system solver?
Awarded Aug 14, 2016 at 12:49
C++ vs Fortran for HPC
Awarded May 18, 2016 at 8:23
How does the MATLAB backslash operator solve $Ax=b$ for square matrices?
Awarded Oct 15, 2015 at 10:07
How much better are Fortran compilers really?
Awarded Aug 5, 2015 at 1:24
What kinds of problems lend themselves well to GPU computing?
Awarded Jun 5, 2015 at 11:37
Is it worthwhile to write unit tests for scientific research codes?
Awarded Aug 25, 2014 at 20:43
What are some good strategies for improving the serial performance of my code?
Awarded Jul 5, 2014 at 13:59
Is there a high quality nonlinear programming solver for Python?
Awarded May 14, 2014 at 23:33
What are criteria to choose between finite-differences and finite-elements
Awarded Mar 18, 2014 at 8:58
What core skills should every computational scientist have? [closed]
Awarded May 3, 2013 at 14:26
Recommendations for a usable, fast C++ matrix library?
Awarded Oct 1, 2012 at 12:52