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Implicit integrator for ODE with quadratic right-hand side

I have an ODE for an unknown $x(t):[0,\infty)\to\mathbb R^n$ of the following form: $$ x_i'(t)=a_i^\top x(t) + x(t)^\top Q_i x(t), $$ for $i\in\{1,\ldots,n\}$. Here, the vectors $a_i\in\mathbb R^n$ ...
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Jos Stam's stable fluids — why is the timestep multiplied by the number of grid cells?

One more question about Jos Stam's GDC tutorial on stable fluids: in the advection step on page 8, the timestep for each dimension is implemented as dt * N, where <...
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Write incompressible Navier Stokes as ODE in $(\mathbf{u},p)$

Consider the Navier stokes equation after the discretization with conforming finite elements with source term $f=0$. We have the algebraic structure of a saddle point problem: $$M \dot{u} = f- Au -B^...
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Transient advection equation with stabilized FEM

I am interested in solving the transient advection equation $\left\{\begin{array}{ll}\partial_{t} u+\beta \cdot \nabla u=f & \text { in } \Omega, t>0 \\ u=0 & \text { on } \partial \Omega^{-...
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Expression for numerical amplification factor for Euler time integration and CD2 scheme for one degree hyperbolic function

This is the expression to be derived but I am not getting the exact expression as given in the image. Is the given expression given for the implicit Euler method? Here $N_c = c (\delta t)/h$ and $\tan(...
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Stability of Crank-Nicholson for advection diffusion equation for spatial discretization other than finite differences second-order centered

Crank Nicholson is a time discretization method (see 4th equation here). From what I see around, you can use different space discretization, such as Finite elements. But for the linear advection-...
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Numerical integrator for $a'(t)=e^{-a(t)}f(t)$

Suppose I know a function $f(t)$ and all its derivatives in $t$ in closed form. Given $a(0)$ and some $t_0>0$, I'm looking for an explicit integrator that can estimate $a(t_0)$, where $a(\cdot)$ ...
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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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Numerical solution of the advection equation with Crank–Nicolson finite difference method

I need to implement a numerical scheme for the solution of the one-dimensional advection equation $$\\\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + C(x, t) \frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = 0 \\\\$$ $$ \\ C(x,t) = \...
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Conservation of energy test for 2-body problem

I'm trying to implement a C++ code for the evaluation of the solution of an N-body system of ODE. I've started with a 2-body problem just to set the methods ...
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Second Order Time Integration for Stiff Linear System Avoiding any Explicit Step

I have a linear system $$ \dot x(t) = Ax(t), \quad x(0)=x_0 \tag{*} $$ with $A$ being Hurwitz (i.e. the solutions may oscillate but will eventually tend to zero) but really stiff. $A$ might be large, ...
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Handling time derivative as source term in SDIRK methods

I am currently facing some challenge implementing a less traditional PDE which take a form similar to the Navier-Stokes equation, except that the continuity equation is modified such that: $$\epsilon \...
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Best practice for ADTs in computational science with Fortran

I have been writing a software package in Fortran for solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system in 2D2V. I want this software to be useful beyond its current application (e.g. systems with different ...
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Explicit DG time step restriction for compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Hesthaven's book 1 mentions the following time step restriction for Navier-Stokes equations (see (7.32) in 2008 edition) $$ \Delta t \approx \frac{h}{N^2} \frac{C}{|u| + |c| + \frac {N^2 \mu}{h}} $$ ($...
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Multigrid Reduction In Time Convergence

I am trying to solve a 2D dynamic linear elasticity model parallel in time using Xbraid. The spatial domain is [0,1]x[0,1] and time domain [0,1]. For time integration I am using a backward Euler ...
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Heat equation in non-dimensional form behaving differently than in usual format

Starting from $$ c_p \frac{\partial u }{\partial t} = k \nabla^2 u $$ in a one dimensional domain [0,1] where $c_p$ and $k$ are modeling two different materials: $$ k = \begin{cases} 1 ~\text{if} ~x &...
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Parallel In Time with Multigrid

I am trying to solve the linear finite element equation $M\ddot{u}+Ku=F(t)$, where $M$ is the mass matrix ,$K$ the stiffness matrix and $F(t)$ the external load vector, parallel in time using XBraid ...
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Numerical integration in time for finite elements

I am trying to solve $M\ddot{u}=-Ku+F_\text{ext}$ for a 2D linear elastic model with $M$ be the mass matrix,$K$ the stiffness matrix and $F_\text{ext}$ the external load vector coming from a uniformly ...
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How do I apply BDF2 in a STRANG splitting

I have a 3D diffusion equation that I want to solve using a time splitting (2D+1D). Assume that $A$ is the 2D discrete diffusion operator and $B$ is the 1D discrete diffusion operator. I want to use a ...
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How to calculate the average velocity over a surface through time using paraview?

My problem is a little more complex, but here is a simplified similar model. Let us consider a fire source inside a box and the hot gases (burnt or unburnt) from the combustion are going out of the ...
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Mass conservation for hyperbolic relaxation problem

I have solved numerically the following system: \begin{cases} \partial_t{u} + \partial_x{v} = 0 \\ \partial_t{v} + \frac{1}{\varepsilon^2}\partial_x{u} = -\frac{1}{\varepsilon^2}(v-f(u)) \end{cases} ...
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The velocity Verlet method and variable time steps

Does the velocity Verlet handle variable time steps? I found controversial statements about it. In the paper Skeel, R. D., "Variable Step Size Destabilizes the Stömer/Leapfrog/Verlet Method", BIT ...
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Lumped matrices in thermal analysis using finite elements

The governing equation of the transient heat transfer problem is $$C \frac{dT}{dt}+K T = Q$$ $C$ is the heat capacity matrix. $K$ is the thermal conductivity matrix. $T$ is the temperature vector. $...
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Lax-wendroff for stiff source terms

I am interested in problems of the form $$ u_t = F(u) + S(u) $$ where $F(u) = - div(f(u))$ and $S(u)$ is a stiff source term. I am looking for any existing works which develop Lax-Wendroff type ...
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Numerical integral with symbolic integral in exponent

Many times in fourier approximation we come across integrals such as $$\int_0^1 e^{-\gamma\int_0^xu_0(\eta)d\eta}dx$$ where $\gamma$ is a constant and the data for $u_0$ is provided as a discretely ...
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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 will PDE discretization matrix look like for time and space? [duplicate]

Please note: this question is not a duplicate of this question since, while the PDE is the same, the nature of this question is different, i.e. the other question treats a different aspect of this PDE....
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Stability Criteria for Numerical Solution of Windkessel Ordinary Differential Equation

I'm trying to solve this equation (Windkessel equation) numerically as: $$C \frac{d P}{d t} + \frac{P}{R} = Q(t)$$ Where $C$ is compliance, $R$ is resistance, $P$ is pressure, and $Q(t)$ is a known ...
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Should I expect computational gains using a second-order splitting method here?

I am trying to solve a three-dimensional baroclinic transport problem. The hydrodynamic (three-dimensional shallow water) equations are: \begin{align} \nabla \cdot \vec{v} = 0, \tag{1} \\ \frac{\...
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Wanted: smoothing time domain transform

Let $A$ be a finite (and small-ish) set of positive real numbers and 0. Let $B$ be a subset of $\mathbb N^0$, up to some (small-ish) bound. I have a function $f(t)$, $A \rightarrow B$ that is ...
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Error control and sequence acceleration at the same time

In a posteriori error control for solving ODEs, one typically computes two different approximate solutions, one of which being "more accurate" and one of which being "less accurate". If $y_q^{n+1}$ is ...
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Symplectic Algorithms for Hamilton’s Equations as opposed to just Volume-Preserving

this might be a silly question, but if we’re trying to numerically solve Hamilton’s equations with some discrete scheme, sometimes when the scheme preserves phase space volume (Hamilton’s eqns are ...
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General questions regarding stability for time-integration of operator-split PDE systems

I am interested in solving ODE systems of the form \begin{align} \frac{\partial \vec{u}}{\partial t} = F(\vec{u}) \end{align} where $F$ is a nonlinear operator, $\vec{u}$ is a vector valued function ...
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How to isolate and test time discretization order of accuracy

I have a code that uses both spatial and time discretization/integration. For convergence analysis, I am wondering how one would test the order of accuracy of their ${time}$ integration scheme? I ...
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How to implement Galerkin Method of Lines / FEM with black box integrators in scipy

Suppose I have some time dependent PDE, which can be written in the strong form as $$ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + \mathcal{L}(u) = f $$ Where $\mathcal{L}$ is some differential operator. If I ...
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What does "symplectic" mean in reference to numerical integrators, and does SciPy's odeint use them?

In this comment I wrote: ...default SciPy integrator, which I'm assuming only uses symplectic methods. in which I am refering to SciPy's odeint, which uses ...
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Confirmation of FSAL property for IMEX methods by Kennedy and Carpenter

This question is a continuation of Fourth order IMEX Runge-Kutta method and Implementation details for high order IMEX methods by Kennedy and Carpenter. I need confirmation that ARK3(2)4L[2]SA by ...
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Do there exist low-storage Runge–Kutta methods with an order larger than four?

I’m trying to find a Runge–Kutta integrator that only requires the absolute minimum of storage, i.e. it fulfills one of the following three, presumably equivalent criteria: Each evaluation of the ...
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Developping PDE with Python symbolically and numericaly

I feel like publishing some previous works from my PhD thesis. I was using Mathematica to build a system of 2N partial differential equations for 2N functions by symbolic spatial Taylor expansion, ...
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How do you apply boundary conditions in a time-stepping problem?

It looks to me like a very common problem, yet I haven't been able to find any practical guide on the subject despite many hours searching. Here is a clearer statement of my question: I have a ...
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Crank-Nicolson integrator: oscillations with complex matrix

I'm working on a Real-Time TDDFT implementation and I am currently comparing different propagation schemes for the propagation of the Kohn-Sham wave function, $$ \phi(t+\Delta t) = \hat{\mathcal{U}}\...
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Split-step-method for coupled equations

I have implemented a split-step-method for an equation of the shape $$\partial_z E = i\partial_x^2E+ic|E|^2E$$ resulting in a split into the linear part $$L=\partial_x^2$$ and the nonlinear part $$N=...
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Definition of CFL number in Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian framework

In an Eulerian frame of reference, the CFL number is defined as $$\sigma=\frac{u \Delta t}{\Delta x}$$ with $u$ the magnitude of the fluid velocity. A restriction such as $\sigma<1$ for time ...
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Open source solver for continuous-time stochastic non-linear DAEs (SDAEs)

I am trying to solve a system of non-linear index-1 DAEs in which the derivatives of the state variables, $x(t)$ are corrupted by additive noise, $w(t)$ (whose co-variance matrix is known). $\dot x(t)...
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implicit odes solution using fdm

I am solving a non linear second order implicit initial value problem using finite difference method, but my results do not converge. Please guide me with an example, how we can apply finite ...
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Double Integrating acceleration data to obtain position: 2 Problems

I have a data sample from an accelerometer from my phone (pretty bad accelerometer though). I'm trying to double integrate it in order to obtain the position as a function of time. I'm using a program ...
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Schrödinger equation with time dependent Hamiltonian

I need to solve the Schrödinger equation with a time dependent Hamiltonian $$i\hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi = \left[-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\nabla^2 +\frac{1}{2} k(t)(x^2+y^2) + V(r)\right]\Psi $...
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Integrating the 2d vorticity equation on periodic boundaries

This question is a follow-up of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44718160/solve-a-linear-system-for-fft-coefficients At some time (kt), the FT of the vorticity (omega) satisfies: ...
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BDF vs implicit Runge Kutta time stepping

Are there any reasons for why one should choose high order implicit Runge Kutta (IMRK) over BDF time stepping? BDF seems much easier to me as $q$ stage IMRK needs $q$ linear solves per time step. ...
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Fully discrete finite element method for 1D dynamic euler-bernoulli beam problem

I am trying to solve a 1D initial boundary value problem in MATLAB using Finite Elements with time stepping, for the purpose of learning scientific computing and to build up to more difficult problems....

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