Questions tagged [software]
Questions about libraries and standalone software designed or well-suited for scientific or numerical calculations.
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Split step Fourier method to solve Schrödinger equation for moving potential
I'm trying to use the excellent Schrodinger Python class by Jake VanderPlas (https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/09/05/quantum-python/) to simulate a wave packet within a moving Gaussian potential. I ...
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Integrating/Implementing NURBS-related calculations
Recently, I started to develop some codes that use NURBS (general things I intend to use/already using: spline generation, interpolation, grids, isolines, closest-point find, and many others), both ...
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Which free library should I use to perform cutting/clipping operation?
I have a set of points which forms a closed loop, and I want to perform cutting/clipping a 3D model using this loop. I have used VTK but in some cases, it has a "Cannot follow edges" problem.
Is ...
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Magnetostatic modelling Radia: Increasing distance between magnets a produces positive force until a certain point, beyond which force goes haywire
I have two sets of magnets. One set consists of two electromagnets (Shown below: Blue) and the other set consists of two NdFeB N40 permanent magnets. Both sets of magnets lie on the same plane. I want ...
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Help understanding this numerical surface integration technique?
I'm attempting to write a FORTRAN program that calculates the magnetic field, B, at any point outside of a bar magnet.
I'm going to use a first order euler scheme, where each side of the bar magnet ...
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Finite volume software packages
There are many software packages for the finite element method, of which the most popular are listed e.g. on Wikipedia. When it comes to the finite volume method, I'm not aware of any similarly ...
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Converting acceleration over time to velocity or speed in code
I have acceleration data from a sensor. X Y & Z.
I move the senor in the Y axis. Mostly in a straight line. So I ignore x & z.
From the sensor documentation
5.2.1 Acceleration output：
ax=((...
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Solving complicated coupled ODE using RK4/ODE45 in Matlab
I have the following coupled differential equations also known as Guiding Center Approximation. It is used to explain the position- and velocity change of particles (electrons and protons, N = 1000) ...
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Software that does naïve or formal simplification of mathematical expressions
Devil-may-care that I am, suppose that I wanted to 'simplify' the following expression, utterly ignoring the fact that it's very naughty to raise various kinds of numbers to arbitrary powers or to ...
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Numerical propagation of a density matrix using Liouville von Neumann equation
I want to look at time evolution of the density matrices of some, very simple, spin systems, but I am having trouble with my approach.
I want to use a simple for-...
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What software packages are designed towards modelling the radiation from accelerated charges?
I'm interested in modeling the electromagnetic fields radiated from an accelerated charge, but do not want to reinvent stuff if possible. I suspect there are software packages already out there which ...
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Is there any scalable machine learning tool like molecular dynamics software NAMD?
I work in Molecular dynamics of biomolecules. I am familiar with the software NAMD. We use NAMD in our CPU cluster with the aid of mpirun.
Without GPUs can I implement large scale deep learning?
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How to solve the transcendental equation: $\tan(x) = \frac{2x}{x^2-1}$
I'm interested in finding the roots of the following equation:
$\tan(x) = \frac{2x}{x^2-1}$.
It is easily seen that 0 is a root and the roots are symmetric w.r.t. 0.
I wonder if an analytical ...
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Find hidden sequence $a_n = a_{n-1} + T $ , with period $T$, given some “random” numbers
I have this data plotted on a graph in which all points have the same value on the y-axis, e.g a constant integer "c", while the x-axis is the time in seconds.
So, for a c = 25 on the y-axis, there ...
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Most suitable particle-tracking software
I have a problem for which I am trying to determine the most suitable software to use. Here is a brief description of the problem.
I have a mixture of inertial particles A and B with different ...
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Pre/Post-processor for an academic finite element solver
I'm currently developing a finite element solver for academic/research purposes. Therefore I'm searching for a pre- and postprocessor in my toolchain.
For a previous project I have used gmsh as a ...
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Visualizing the solutions of the Differential equations by varying different parameters
Actually I am interested in analyzing the soution to the ODE given as $\frac{dy}{dx} = A + By + C\sin(y) , y(l) = m$ and check how the solution gets affected like whether they exist or not depending ...
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Software/code used to do this plot of homoclinic bifurcation
I saw this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEXeexvaAVo
I find that user friendly to visualize the dynamics.
I am curious on how, like on which software he did the code,also any reference guide ...
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Speeding up a linear transform using Python
In an optical wavefront propagation problem, I need to do excessive Fourier-type computations:
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How to do FFT transform on unequal spaced data points? [duplicate]
How to do FFT transform on unequal spaced data points using Mathematica or Origin?
My data is similar with Figure a, but the data points are unequal spaced. Does anyone know how to do FFT transform ...
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Extracting system matrices from FEM software
I work in the field of Finite Element Methods, specifically, developing algorithms to speed up the computational time in structural mechanics problems. Till now I have been developing my code in ...
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Any FOSS MATLAB/Octave toolbox for high-speed variable precision arithmetic?
I need to use variable precision arithmetic in MATLAB for an expensive set of computation.
The vpa function provided by the symbolic math toolbox is very slow. I found a non-free alternative toolbox ...
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Software/code to extract a solenoidal (a.k.a. divergence-free) field from a 2D vector field numerically
Can somebody point me to software/code to extract a solenoidal (a.k.a. divergence-free) field from a 2D vector field numerically?
There are a plethora of papers and documents describing how to do ...
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2D mesh generator with geometric primitives
The question is exactly as the title:
Which 2D (triangular) mesh generator software can be used which has a set of geometric primitives, controlled mesh size and standard output (.vtk or something ...
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Software suggestion for simulating the stacking of sedimenting rods
I'd like to simulate the following problem:
Define some square, horizontal and hard area onto which cylinders
(aspect ratio R) sediment.
Preferably, the source of cylinders
sequentially generates N ...
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Finding the lowest $n$ eigenvalues of a band-diagonal Matrix
I have a real sparse matrix of the form
$$
\left( \begin{array}{ccc}
h_{11} & h_{12} & 0 & h_{14} & & & \\
h_{21} & h_{22} & h_{23} & 0 & h_{25} & & ...
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Spherical Harmonics: band-limited representations of a vector field on a sphere
I have used pyShtools in the past to expand scalar functions to spherical harmonics and to synthesize band-limited representations of them. However, I am not too sure how to achieve this for a vector ...
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Why Binary language is used as a first language for the Computer Systems not a high level Language? [closed]
--> why computers not used high level language as a first Language what are the main reasons?
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Book Recommondation for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation [duplicate]
Can you recommend a good book that discusses several methods for the numerical solution of time-dependent and time-independent Schrödinger equation? I have searched the internet several times but ...
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What is some of the best software design you've seen in a numerical code? [closed]
I don't think I've ever seen any scientific computational software that I would consider "good" in terms of software design. I don't mean in terms of functionality, but in terms of good high-level ...
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Automatic motion recognition
How difficult is it to program an automatic software using C that is able to read astronomy images of up to 4096x4096 pixels (or other sensor geometries), search ...
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Integrating a dynamical system until an algebraic condition is satisfied
I have a model given by a system of differential equations
$$ \frac{dy}{dt}=f(y)$$
with $y=(y_1,y_2,y_3)$ and $f:\mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R}^3$. The system works as follows : integrate the ode's ...
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What are alternatives to openbabel to convert CML file to image?
I recently started to perform natural resonance theory (NRT) analysis with NBO6. This program may automatically create a chemical markup language (cml) file with the treated structures. Unfortunately ...
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Convolutional Neural Nets for Large Scale Image Classification on Windows?
I need to build some CNN's using very large numbers of photos, to classify which photos contain certain features.
I've run into a number of road blocks.
As much as I love both Linux and ...
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Is OPENFOAM a good idea for direction/operator splitting in parabolic equation
I would like to know if I should switch to OPENFOAM for my task.
I work only with Cartesian grids, right now in 2d, rectangular domains only.
If $\mathbf{w} = (w_1, w_2)$ and suppose I want to solve
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Numerical Euler Rotation Equation
The problem I have may be really simple, but still getting a hard time solving it. So I have the Euler rotation equations:
$$I_{1}\dot{\omega}_{1}+\left(I_{3}-I_{2}\right)\omega_{2}\omega_{3}=\...
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Evaluation of feynman diagrams: FORM vs. Sympy vs. other
I just started working on my master thesis in the theoretical particle physics and my supervisor asked me to start working with FORM, a script interpreter with basic knowledge of lorentz and dirac ...
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Does some form of documentation of GMSH exist?
I am looking to implement GMSh into a simualtor that I am going to create. I am looking to integrate the geo, mesh, and post processor modules.
However, looking online, it appears the documentation ...
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Which topics are hot in computational science? [closed]
I am accepted to computational science master program. The master program just started to accept students in our university and today each group of 3 students was assigned to an advisor teacher (we ...
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Interior nodes of a closed graph?
Does anybody know if any graph partitioner library such as Metis, Scotch, or Zoltan can (besides splitting a domain), differentiate between internal (i) and boundary (b) nodes?
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Manipulating/Extracting Data and Developing Methods - Language Choice [closed]
As a general programming enthusiast and aspiring Bioinformatician student I have an intermediate understanding of computing (languages) as well as Java, and to a lesser extent C++. Having knowledge in ...
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Can other running processes harm the performance of my simulation?
I don't have an high-end machine on which run my simulation (Python + C extensions, based on numpy for calculations)
Thus I intend to run the program on my PC, for several hours. I won't use the ...
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Fluid-structure interaction solver for cardiovascular applications
I would like to start running FSI simulations for cardiovascular applications.
More precisely, I'm interested in the behaviour of aortic valve under
physiological flow conditions in which the ...
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Python trust region optimization code that allows ellipsoid-shaped trust regions
Are there any high quality trust region optimization implementations that
allow nonspherical ellipsoid trust regions, and
are written in Python, or are easy to call from python?
By nonspherical ...
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Mechanics - Rotational Inertia
I am facing a problem solving a mechanical system which is shown in the scheme below.
We assume that coupling of the two shafts is done with a clutch
Equations:
$$J1*\frac{d\omega1}{dt} + Td(\...
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Danger of complex arithmetics in scientific computing
The complex inner product $\langle u,v\rangle$ has two different definitions decided by conventions: $\bar{u}^Tv$ or $u^T\bar{v}$. In BLAS, I found the routines cdotu, zdotu, and cdotc, zdotc. The ...
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What are some tips on developing a problem-specific ODE solver?
I have a small system of stiff ODEs describing a chemical reaction. The right-hand side is quite complicated, as well as the Jacobian. This equation will be solved many times with different initial ...
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Mac/Xcode/C++ connect with GAMS
Basically, I failed to trying to implement individual global MINLP solvers (alphaBB, ANTIGONE, BARON, Couenne, LindoAPI, and SCIP) in C++/Xcode/Mac system. On the other hand, I realize that GAMS ...
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Help on writing sofware: general guidelines, in particular separation of computation and visualization
Although I already did some work in the intersection of theory and simulation I'm still very new to this field and I need some guidance. If anybody can give some recommendations for introductory ...
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C++ mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) solver
Doing research project in material involving (mixed integer nonlinear programming) MINLP problem, we want to implement MINLP based on C++, because the majority of our project is based on C++. What ...
