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Delaunay triangulation libraries for sets of 3D points CGAL

I need help. Do you know such a library for 3D triangulation - CGAL? How to get from it the order of joining the vertices to enter into your variable? Found nothing on the official site. Thanks!
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Eigen C++ Library Over 4x Slower than Fortran

I am experimenting with ways to call compiled programs from Python. My primary interest is iterative optimization methods, so I'm testing an implementation of Newton's method to solve a logistic ...
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Searching for recent code source for "Parallel scientific computing in C++ and MPI "

I am learning C++ scientific computing with "Parallel scientific computing in C++ and MPI A Seamless Approach to Parallel Algorithms and their Implementation" since it kept coming up a lot ...
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Recommendations for ODE solvers for stiff equations

I'm continuing the research of a former Ph.D. student in my group requiring the solution of a system of ODEs. On a technical note, they wrote: The system of Boltzmann equations behaves numerically ...
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Are C++ and FORTRAN low or high -level programming languages?

In this post, they mentioned that C++ and FORTRAN are low–level programming languages. However, In other references, they consderd these language as a high-level programming languages. Which one is ...
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Global reconstruction defined elementwise in a-posteriori error estimator

This question is a follow-up of this previous one. In "Error Control for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for First Order Hyperbolic Problems" by Georgoulis et al., an error estimator is ...
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Compute 2D numerical double integration with Boost C++ with parameters

I am trying to compute the double Richardson and Wolf integrals for the focusing of a lens with Boost in C++ (using the Gauss Kronrod method). As a starting point, I used the example presented in this ...
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Can someone help or point me out to C++ source code for a two body orbit simulation using symplectic integration?

I've professional experience with physics simulations and C++ programming, although I don't have specific experience with astrophysics simulations. I'm trying to build a two-body evolving system ...
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Efficient multidimensional numerical integration in R and C++

I'm trying to perform a 4-dimensional numerical integration in R using a function I wrote in C++ code which is then sourced in <...
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High quality constrained optimization C++ library with matrix free second order solver?

I'm working with large scale constrained optimization problem. Some of my constraints can be non linear. Currently i'm using IPOPT. Quality is good by my Hessian computation too slow. It seems that i ...
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Evaluation of real-valued confluent hypergeometric function with specific complex arguments

In my C++ code, I need to evaluate the confluent hypergeometric function ${}_1F_1(a,b;z)$ with complex arguments in a special case. More precisely, I have to compute $$ e^{-i\phi}{}_1F_1(\ell+1+iZ,2(\...
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C++ Eigen::Map class questions

The Eigen::Map documentation here (https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEigen_1_1Map.html) mentions the following: This class represents a matrix or vector expression mapping an existing array of data....
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Why does Eigen allocate a temporary to evaluate A.noalias() = B.transpose()*C in parallel?

I wrote a program which iteratively transforms data using matrix multiplications. To minimize the number of large memory allocations, I use two roughly equal-sized ...
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Perturbation problem using Runge-Kutta 4

I'm trying to evaluate the perturbations magnitude between 2 body orbiting a central one in three dimensions. In order to do this I need to have an estimate of the error, which I did using Richardson ...
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Reference request: C++ and numerical analysis book

I'm a master student with a good Numerical analysis background. I'm going to do a master thesis in the same subject, but I need to use C++ since my advisor loves it, and I also believe it's the best ...
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Need software for generating self-avoiding random walks on a tetrahedral lattice

I am looking for FOSS code that can generate self-avoiding random walk trajectories on a tetrahedral lattice. The purpose of the exercise is to create random conformations of model polymer chains that ...
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MPI_Test not progressing MPI_Isend/MPI_Irecv requests

I am running a CFD simulation with a 200,000-vertex mesh. I've decomposed the mesh into 2 load-balanced sub-domains to test my parallel implementation. In the specific function that I am time-...
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Point cloud to height map in C++

With the increased popularity of 3D imaging and scanning I thought it would be easy to transform a xyz point cloud into a Height Map (xy matrix of z points), but after a couple of hours searching I ...
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N-body correct scaling

I realized an usual way to scale an N-body problem for an N-body simulation is by choosing units such that gravitational constant $G = 1$, but I'm probably doing it the wrong way. Suppose I simply ...
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Using the BDF and RK4 methods to solve this coupled system of ODEs in C++

I'm trying to solve a system of ODEs using the BDF order 4 method. I find the first 3 points using RK4, then for the implicit part of the BDF, I use Newton-Raphson iteration. Unfortunately my solution ...
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Can one safely use an OpenMP parallel loop with Armadillo?

I have a C++ code performing some Armadillo computations in a loop. I'd like to parallelize this loop with OpenMP. But Armadillo automatically uses OpenMP for some computations. So, would the OpenMP ...
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Range of a matrix from its complete orthogonal decomposition

In this StackOverflow answer, @Gokul has shown how to get a basis of the kernel of a matrix with the help of the 'Eigen' function CompleteOrthogonalDecomposition. ...
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Optimize speed for calculating the approximate inverse of a large matrix

I am searching for a faster method to calculate an approximate inverse of a large matrix (up to 32000x32000) resulting from a discrete non-linear system of partial differential equations. I'm using C++...
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'Eigen' matrices with static dimension

I noticed that 'Eigen' matrices with dynamic dimension are less efficient than the matrices with static dimension. My algorithm uses a lot of matrices which don't need to be resized, so I wanted to ...
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Ill-conditioned stiffness matrix

I am writting a Fem code in c++ for a 2d plane stress model. My question is regarding the assembly stiffness matrix.I noticed that some elements of the matrix are not exactly zero but insted a number ...
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Which library to use in C++ for fast DCT's?

I need to apply a 1D type-II DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) to each column of a matrix while normalizing the result in C++. Effectively, I want to multiply my matrix with an orthogonal type-II DCT-...
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Computing Singular Value Decomposition of small ($4\times 4$) matrices

I need to compute the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of many $4 \times 4$ matrices. I'm looking for SVD algorithms specialized for small matrices. I've read that the ...
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Extracting data from VTK simulations using C++

I have been given a few numerical simulations regarding fluid mixing and have been asked to extract a few parameters from them using C++. Altogether there are about 1000 VTK files per simulation, and ...
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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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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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