Questions tagged [education]
Referring to matters of learning/teaching computational science
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What core skills should every computational scientist have? [closed]
Every scientist needs to know a bit about statistics: what correlation means, what a confidence interval is, and so on. Similarly, every scientist ought to know a bit about computing: the question is, ...
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Is algorithmic analysis by flop-counting obsolete?
In my numerical analysis courses, I learned to analyze the efficiency of algorithms by counting the number of floating-point operations (flops) they require, relative to the size of the problem. For ...
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Does Computational Science involve programming?
I read about computational science on Wikipedia, but my understanding is not very clear.
Does computational science involve programming? How different is computational science from computational ...
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Is there any open-source or easy-to-access software that can simplify algebraic expressions like $x^{2}+2x+3, x=\sqrt{2}t-1$?
I always calculate things by hand, but now my comrades are getting nasty and making a lot of repetitive exercises involving just plugging things in like the expression above. I am particularly ...
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Easily understandable argument that normal Runge–Kutta methods cannot be generalised to SDEs?
A naïve approach to solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs) would be:
take a regular multi-step Runge–Kutta method,
use a sufficiently fine discretisation of the underlying Wiener process,
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simple MHD simulation code for (self) education and play with
I would like some super simple computational code for solving magnetohydrodynamics problems. High accuracy nor performance is not my concern. I wan't it just to visually explore qualitative behavior ...
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Introductions to hp-FEM
do you know good introductions into or surveys $hp$-adaptive finite elements?
In particular I do not know how the heuristics for choosing spatial refinement or increased polynomial degree are ...