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4th Order Adams-Moulton Method C++

I am trying to solve an ODE using 4th Order Runge Kutta and the 4th Order Adams-Moulton Method. I iterate over a couple of thousand timesteps and it seems to hold fine when the values are constant(...
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Reading VTK file into C++ for analysis

I apologize in advance if this post is at all ignorant or elementary, I am a pure mathematician who is newly getting into the world of scientific computing. For my research, my advisor would like me ...
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How to calculate error in successive over relaxation for PDE?

I am trying to solve the Poisson equation numerically using the FDM method in C++. But I have a little confusion with the iterative process. I understand that the number of iterations should go until ...
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Calculating the Strange Attractor of the Duffing Oscillator in C++

I am simultaneously trying to learn computational physics methods, chaos, and C++. I think this is the right site for the question, and I apologise if not. I started working through Thijssen's ...
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How to begin writing scientific codes in C++ in Trilinos or PETSC style?

My background: I have taken some courses on numerical analysis during my PhD and read a few books on the topic as well. I mostly work on low Reynolds number fluid mechanics and use boundary element ...
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How to document math formulations in scientific computing codes?

I am writing the code relate to math. There is some complicated math formulation in the project. Directly writing the calculation code leads to hard understanding; thus I want to comment on the ...
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CUDA and implicit array expansion

I am retrying this question since I didn’t do so properly last time: I have implement a simply c++ CUDA example that takes A [m x 1] and B [1 x N] and adds them element wise with what I am used to ...
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Calculating the exponential of a complex matrix

I am trying to calculate the exponent of a 3 x 3 matrix using the formula $\sum_{i=0}^\infty\frac {A^n}{n!}$ I believe that my error may lay in the scalar division with a factorial or the member ...
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Finite Difference libray C++

What is the best FD library (or collection of libraries) for C++ codes? I am looking for some data structure implementation that offers the possibility to do parallel computations on adaptively ...
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Suggestions for scientific computing projects to undertake to sharpen core skills

Currently I am completing all exercises in books like "Introduction to Python for Science and Engineering, David Pine" and "Guid to Scientific Computing in C++, Pitt-Francis, Whitley". I am looking ...
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Whi are chi-squared distributions in (C++) boost::random and C++ STL faster than in boost::math?

I am trying to generate random chi-squared numbers in C++, according to some degree of freedom (which can be a float). Several libraries can be used for that purpose, among which the C++11 Standard ...
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How to store a TB size array in C++ on a cluster

I want to do a huge simulation that requires ~ 1 TB of data to describe a bunch of interacting particles (each has different interactions). Is it possible to store this data in an array in C++, so ...
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C++ book recommendation- Scientific computing and C++

I'm a master's student in Math interested in Numerical Analysis. I know there are lots of questions like that on this site, but I think this is the best place to ask. So, I'm looking for an ...
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Generating Random Orthogonal Matrices in C++

I'm looking for an open-source library for the generation of random n-dimensional orthogonal matrices in C++. In python, it looks like such a function is available in the NumPy package. But I was not ...
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Is C++ and Object-Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and Engineers by Daoqi Yang still relevant?

I'm looking to learn C++ primarily from a scientific computation perspective. The approach of the textbook seems ideal to me as it covers C++ from first principles with an emphasis on numerical ...
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What are new c++20 features that are relevant to scientific computation?

In my research department we plan a small seminar on the new c++20 language standard. There are exhaustive lists online presenting the new features of the language standard, some of which will be of ...
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Writing code on the CPU while developing, running it on the GPU when live - which approach?

In my simulations I am using dense matrix-vector multiplications and 2D-fft transformations quite often, for matrix sizes of 8kx8k and up. Hence, I assume that using a GPU is beneficial for speeding ...
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Using adolc for the sign function in c++

Here is an implementation of the sign function in C++ using Adolc librairy for automatic differentiation. ...
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Ising model simulation offset critical temperature and interal ernergy

I'm writing a code for the Ising model using WHAM (the weighted histogram analysis method)，But it seems to produce critical temperature and internal energy wrong. (newest rewritten code is below) <...
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The Formula of Explicit Runge-Kutta Fourteen order

I need an explicit Runge-Kutta 14th order formula. If you know about some reference that discusses at least 10th order (or higher, since I'm looking for the 14th) of Runge-Kutta and there is ...
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How to perform an eigendecomposition of a general complex matrix with arbitrary precision in C/C++

I need to obtain the Eigenvectors of a general complex matrix, but with quadruple precision. Is anyone aware of a means to do this? I currently use Tux Eigen, and I see that in their unsupported ...
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Gmsh meshes flat faces incorrectly for cylindrical faces

I have some C++ code that generates meshes from step files and then analyses these meshes for visibility of the faces from different viewing directions. I currently use CGAL but I would like to switch ...
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GPGPU computing, software selection

I am using an existing GCC C++ x86 Qt application that filters, displays and stores results computed by some C code. Since the computation by now got too complex for CPUs I intend to port the small C ...
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Is using std::valarray considered good practice?

C++ has had the std::valarray class since the C++98 standard. It is meant to facilitate numerical computations, providing the sort of operations one would expect of ...
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How to deal with a huge system of ODEs in Boost ODEINT?

I am using the C++ library ODEint, which is part of Boost, to solve an extremely large system of coupled ODEs - in particular 1975 equations with large rational functions in the coefficients. In the ...
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PETSc - Manipulate BAIJ matrix locally

My program loads a parallel PETSc matrix $A$ on several MPI processes, each holding a block submatrix $A_i$. I would like to retrieve the local submatrix $A_i$, the one corresponding to the current ...
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Algorithm to join hexahedra and obtain outline volume

I would like to join several hexahedra and obtain an outline volume. First, I started with 2D implementation. In 2D, there are non-intersecting quadrangles which always touch each other as shown in ...
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How to read data from simply formatted text file (c++)?

Mesh information like points, faces and cells is to be stored into separate files: e.g. for points file: # points data: x y z N_Points 100 x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 ... cell file: # cells data: ...
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Derivative of Whittaker-Shannon interpolant

Last time we looked at how to improve the accuracy of Whittaker-Shannon interpolation, where user njuffa demonstrated that judicious use of sin_pi could greatly ...
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Computing excited states using itensor (with DMRG)

I am trying to compute first few excited states of some Hamiltonian (I am using itensor and its DMRG algorithm). To do so, I am ...
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Compiled c++ code runs much faster with double than float. Explanation?

I am still rather new on here and I hope question is suitable for this forum otherwise please help me migrate it to greener pastures. I am an electrical engineer specializing in applying mathematics ...
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Automatic differentiation via ADOL-C and the Heaviside Function

I am writting a c++ program in which I define a function $$\displaystyle F(t) = \sum_{i}r_i\,H(t-t_i)$$ where $H$ is the heaviside function, $t_i$ are optimal parameters which are mutable. The ...
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Metis: how to use and tutorial recommendation

I am new to METIS and trying to use it in my fortran code. I read the manual online. But still, I am not sure about how to implement it my code. I tried the test cases in the graphs directory. For ...
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How to justify using available code (in different language) for comparing algorithms

I have proposed an algorithm for a scheduling problem in a submitting paper. In the revision, the reviewer asked us to compare with another algorithm from the literature. Our algorithm is in MATLAB, ...
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How to integrate the contents of a vector using an adaptive quadrature routine [duplicate]

I have a function which requires the return type to be a container. The problem is that I need to integrate the contents of the container as efficiently as possible and was hoping to use adaptive ...
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Good C, C++ library for efficient grid search / tuples, ideally with bindings to Eigen

I have a $q$-dimensional grid, known at run, not compile-time, that has $50$ points in each direction and hence $50^3$ combinations that I would like to first build and then call a function with each ...
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Whittaker-Shannon interpolation: Accuracy dies with speedup; can it be fixed?

With a truncated Whitaker-Shannon series (cardinal series) $$ f(t) = \sum_{j = 0}^{n-1} y_{j} \frac{\sin\left(\pi( \frac{t-t_0}{h} -j)\right)}{\pi\left(\frac{t-t_0}{h}-j\right)} $$ we can naively ...
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LAPACK equivalent on c++ , which is the best one? [duplicate]

I am following a course of computational material physics. The professor uses fortran to code and uses lapack to solve eigenvalue problems. So far I just know c++. There is an equivalent library that ...
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Find a solution of large system of inequalities

I have a large system of homogenous inequalities involving 33 real unknowns of the form $$ \vec{F}(z_i)^T \cdot \vec{X}>0\, $$ where $\vec{X} = \left(x_1,...,x_{24}\right)^T$ are the unknowns and ...
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Structural Analysis Library

Can anyone recommend a structural analysis library that satisfies the following requirements: C++ API Simulate both beam elements and shell (slab) elements Both static and dynamic analysis Free and/...
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Simple way to store/read data from file in C++

I've been running various simulations with C++, and doing so has often involved saving lots of data to file (real/complex matrices, arrays, etc) and then reading them into other programs later. ...
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C++ Best practices for dealing with many constants, variables in scientific codes

I am developing a code to simulate fluid flow with biological substances present in the flow. This involves the standard Navier-Stokes equations coupled to some additional biological models. There are ...
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Best software to do big number calculations quickly

I am trying to do some work on some math conjecture. I am testing the conjecture numbers using very large math numbers (100+ digits ). I am currently using python to test these numbers. In the ...
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Good C++ optimization library for BFGS

To implement maximum likelihood estimators, I am looking for a good C++ optimization library that plays nicely with Eigen's matrix objects. Eigen has some capability of interfacing of its own but if ...
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FFTW on subarray with MPI

With the guru interfaces of FFTW, I can apply transforms only to parts of a multidimensional array by modifying the fftw_iodim ...
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$ A * B $ computation when B is a symmetric matrix in armadillo [closed]

Is there any way to multiply a symmetric matrix by a dense one in armadillo(and use the fact that we have a symmetric matrix)? I know about DSYMM Routine in BLAS,...
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Does armadillo library slow down the execution of matrix operations?

I've converted a MATLAB code to C++ to speed it up, using the Armadillo library to handle matrix operations in C++, but surprisingly it is 10 times slower than the MATLAB code! So I test the ...
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Efficient eigen-decomposition of covariance matrix

I am looking for an C/C++/Python algorithm implementation that calculates eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a symmetric, positive semidefinite covariance matrix. A general-purpose eigen-decomposition ...
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Looking for a converter of AMPL/GAMS models into C code

I've done an extensive web search, but could not find an option. Conversion between model formats is available, but conversion of objective function and constraint equations into C code seems absent. ...
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Integration of a diverge function in c++ GSL Library

I am trying to perform an Integral of Hypergeometric function 2F1(a,b,c,x) from -1 to 1 for some good values of $a,b,c$ (lets say $a=1,b=2,c=3$) . I did it in ...

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