Questions tagged [reference-request]
This tag is for requests for books, papers, and citations.
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Red flags for numerical computing?
I've learnt the hard way that you should avoid:
computing small numbers as the difference of two large numbers
evaluating chaotic functions with imprecise inputs.
Are there any other red flags a ...
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Origin of phrase `computational microscope'
I have heard the term 'computational microscope' used to describe the practice of molecular simulation (in the context e.g. computational chemistry, materials science) and its use as a numerical tool ...
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Assume $AX = C$. How to determine which entry of $BX - D$ is non-negative?
Let $A,B$ be $n \times n$ matrices and $C,D$ be $n \times 1$ matrices. Moreover, all entries of $A,B,C,D$ are non-negative. Assume that there is a unique matrix $X$ that solves $AX = C$.
My goal is ...
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Applications of Julia in Chemistry and Molecular Physics?
I was wondering if there are any Theoretical & Computational Chemistry (MM, QM) codes or publications out there that are based primarily on the Julia programming language?
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Advice for a topic in a seminar
I am a master student in Mathematics, and I have to prepare a seminar for a course in mathematical methods for applied sciences. I have a good background in numerical analysis for ODEs, PDEs and hence ...
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Adaptive Lagrangian-Eulerian methods and practical benchmark results
Does anyone know of any published study that talks about the practical aspects of running Adaptive Lagrangian-Eulerian techniques for solid and/or fluid mechanics problems?
I'm looking for things ...
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Avalability of SNOPT optimization solver
I'd like to know if SNOPT solver is available free of cost for academic research in any of the optimization software packages.
I came across a few softwares that have SNOPT, but those require a ...
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How to solve odd-order differential equations in FEM? Petrov-Galerkin?
I've recently learned about using weighted residuals with the Galerkin method to numerically approximate even-order differential equations (for linear elements, I'm still a beginner). It seems for odd-...
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Simple particle-in-cell examples
I am studying about the 1D EM-PIC (Electro Magnetics using particle-in-cell) simulation. I want to have a simultaneous time-integration of the electric/magnetic fields plus the motion of free charges ...
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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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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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Minimum number of elements (mesh size) for electromagnetic simulation
Does someone have a reference for the minimum number of elements (or maximum mesh size) for electromagnetic simulations where a mathematical or numerical explanation is given?
I have found several ...
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Morley element implementation reference
I am looking for a detailed reference on the implementation of the Morley element for FEM, specifically for the biharmonic equation. By detailed, I mean that it should discuss the problems associated ...
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Can Representation Theory be studied computationally / numerically?
Can a subfield such as the representation theory of Lie algebras be studied computationally / numerically -- is there an interplay between the abstract and the concrete? I would be grateful for an ...
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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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Methods to approximate obective function gradients from point cloud
Problem statement:
Assume that I have an objective function $f(x)$ which takes as input a $D$-dimensional vector $x\in\mathbb{R}^D$, and that $f(x)$ is sufficiently smooth. Assume further that I ...
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Truncated power series algebra implementation
1) I am looking for references for an efficient implementation and usage of TPSA. What sources exist besides Berz's 1989 original paper and the incomplete chapter in Dragt's book?
2) Are there ...
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What is the fastest algorithm for computing log determinant of a PSD matrix? (All possible PSD matrices)
I am diving into some literature to understand which is the best algorithm for computing the log-determinant of a PSD matrix. More generally, I am interested in a list of resources to read, which ...
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Consumer hardware for scientific computing?
I'm interested in problems around probability, statistics, and statistical mechanics, and often I find it useful to perform simulations to get some sense of the underlying phenomena. Example ...
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How to approach geographic data interpolation by distance?
let's say I have a set of geographic locations (lat, lng) resulting from a query. Those locations have some kind of internal ranking, my set is sorted by this number in a descending order.
Now I'm ...
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“Geometry of ill-conditioning” for least-squares problems
It is an idea that dates back to Demmel, 1987 that the condition number of a problem is often related to the distance to the closest ill-posed problems. In Section 3 of the above paper, the author ...
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Simulating advection - diffusion problem in a network of 1D pipe
I'm interested in solving the following advection-diffusion system in a 1D network of pipes.
$$\frac{\partial C}{\partial t} = D\frac{\partial ^2 C}{\partial x^2} - v\frac{\partial C}{\partial x}$$
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Book Recommendation: Analysis and design of mechanistic models - such as pharmacokinetics or hydrology models
I have been looking at an interesting book "Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling and Simulation" by Peter Bonate on pharmacokinetic models: the models of how medical drugs work their way through ...
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Are there well-known methods for navigating on kd-trees?
When you have a mesh, there are many well-known methods to navigate it, as for example using a half-edge data structure, that allows easy circulation around faces and vertices.
Are there similar ...
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Reference request: Riks method (Nonlinear FEM)
I'm struggling to find a good detailed reference explaining the Arc-length method or, more generally, Riks method and its derivations. I looked for the classical books in nonlinear mechanics (the ones ...
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Classification of multiobjective optimization algorithms
I am looking for a good (canonical?) overview paper(s)/book(s) on the classification of multiobjective optimization algorithms. I am focused on obtaining a representative set of Pareto optimal ...
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Good reference on the implementation and limitations of SDIRK methods
For the solution of many PDE, implicit high-order time integration schemes are required. I am specifically interested in schemes that do not require a constant time step.
I am well acquainted with ...
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References to solve system of differential equations which describe the evolution of sandpile surface using the finite element method
I want to solve the following nonlinear system in 1D
\begin{cases}
\dot{R} + v \frac{\partial R }{\partial x} - \frac{\partial }{\partial x}\left( D \frac{\partial R }{\partial x} \right) -\Gamma =...
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Original paper on the augmented Lagrangian method in FEM
I am writing a paper in which I want to cite the earliest reference to the augmented Lagrangian method in FEM. For the pure Lagrangian method in FEM, the classical work of Babuška [1] is the original ...
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Null space for smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid
I do not really get the point of null space usage for creating the prolongation operator for smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid. I know what the null space is per definition and I know that the ...
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Is it Grid/Cluster/Cloud Computing? How are those terms defined?
There are three very connected and widely used terms:
Grid and grid computing
Cluster and cluster computing
Cloud and cloud computing
In many situations, it is not obvious which term to use, as I ...
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Reverse automatic differentiation and integration
In Symplectic Runge-Kutta schemes for adjoint equations, automatic differentiation, optimal control and more Sanz Serna writes:
It is well known that the reverse mode of differentiation implies
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References for the nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation using Finite Element Methods
I want to study how to solve the following PDE
\begin{cases}
-\nabla \cdot(\ k(x,y) \ \nabla u \ ) + \beta(x,y)\ u^2 = f(x,y), \ (x,y) \in \Omega \subset \mathbb{R^2} \\
\hspace{0.5cm} u = ...
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Good references for dual-weighted residual (DWR) method for goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)
Can anyone help me with good references (books or papers) where I can learn about dual-weighted residual (DWR) method for goal-oriented adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)?
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Time integration of wave equation
My question is: how come that certain formulations of the wave equation can be time integrated more efficiently then others?
Le me expand a bit on that. Consider the wave equation:
$$ \frac{d^2 p(t,...
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What is the state of the art in solving stiff initial value problems?
I'm looking for current references on solving stiff ODEs. Most of what I know (say, BDF methods) apparently date back to the 1980's, and I feel like a lot of progress should have been made in that ...
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Cardinal B-Splines with derivative information
Have Schoenberg's cardinal B-splines been extended to accept derivative information at each knot, similar to how Lagrange interpolation can be improved by Hermite interpolation?
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Is there an optimization scheme/algorithm that converges, for this non-convex scenario but with some special properties
I have a smooth function $f(x) = \frac{g(x)}{h(x)}$ that is the ratio of two smooth convex functions $g(x)$ and $h(x)$. It is known that $f(x)$ has a global minimum, achieved at the unique point $x_0$....
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Research articles on MultiObjective Non-Linear Programming (MONLP)
I'm looking for papers dealing with multi-objective non-linear programming which could help me implement an algorithm to solve my problem.
My problem is :
Maximize $f(x) = c \cdot x$, while ...
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Numerical integration of Fokker-Planck equation allowing for negative drift?
The Fokker-Planck equation (a.k.a Kolmogorov forward equation or Smoluchowski equation) describes the evolution of a probability density function and numerical integration of the FPE should conserve ...
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Derivation of backward differentiation formulas(BDF)
I have been reading upon numerical techniques that are used to solve stiff ordinary differential equations.
From the description given here, I could follow the steps till equation (5).
I am finding ...
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Guide for finite-difference schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations
I need to solve a simple, low-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
Is there a simple guide for doing this numerically using finite-difference schemes? I found a few research articles ...
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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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Has there been a comparison bewteen SIMPLE/SIMPLER and JFNK for steady CFD?
I'm looking for a comparison between the Jacobian-Free Newton-Krylov (JFNK) method performance compared to the conventional CFD nonlinear solution methodologies like SIMPLE.
Does anyone know if such ...
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Elliptic equation with finite volume and unstructured high order geometry
I have found that in unstructured mesh, discretizing the laplacian operator with finite volumes requires special care, as given in An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Finite Volume ...
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Term for the typical “linear in the larger dimension, quadratic in the smaller” cost for linear algebra
Many dense linear algebra decompositions (QR, SVD...) on an $m\times n$ matrix have cost
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O(\max(m,n)\min(m,n)^2)
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when implemented in practice on a computer. Is there a colloquial name or a more ...
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Sensitivity Lagrangian solution general case
I have asked this question already on maths and mathoverflow.
Just a question about a literature reference. I am writing a paper for engineers.
Usually for the Lagrange multiplier problem
$$
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What good are hard-sphere event-driven molecular dynamics simulations in the face of chaos?
Simple hard-sphere dynamical systems can exhibit chaotic dynamics. Due to finite-precision arithmetic when implemented on a computer, the presence of chaos implies that for a given set of initial data,...
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For noisy or fine-structured data, are there better quadratures than the midpoint rule?
Only the first two sections of this long question are essential. The others are just for illustration.
Background
Advanced quadratures such as higher-degree composite Newton–Cotes, Gauß–Legendre, ...
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References in Scientific Computation for a Computer Science Undergrad? [duplicate]
TLDR: What references and pre-requisites are necessary for a Computer Science Undergraduate to get ready for a Masters and Career in Scientific Computation / Computational X
For a Computer Science ...
