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Numerical stability of higher order Zernike polynomials

I'm trying to calculate higher order (e.g., m=0, n=46) Zernike moments for some image. However, I'm running into a problem ...
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Average value divergence in spectral method for Poisson equation

I'd like to know how to deal with a divergence when trying to solve the Poisson equation for electrostatics with a simple spectral method. I'm not sure how to best state my problem, so I'll explain ...
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Identify the components of the (weak form) PDE in structural mechanics

I am trying to identify the weak form of PDE in structural mechanics. I read a lot of papers where they are using the elliptic boundary value problem \int\limits_{\Omega} \delta \...
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Given co-ordinates of 8 vertices, how to calculate the outward normal and surface area for each face of a irregular hexahedron?

I am working on an FEA mesh of hexahedron elements. The elemental level calculations involve finding the surface normals and area for each surface of a hex element. I preferred the vector cross ...
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Mapping derivative information in uniform to non-uniform grid

I'm having two sets of grids. One is uniform and another one is not uniform. I will calculate the derivative in uniform grid points and I like to transfer(map) the derivative to the non-uniform grid ...
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Scipy Two-point Boundary value Problem

Nonlinear ODE Statement I would like to use scipy to solve the following: u'' + (u')^2 = sin(x) u(0)=0, u(1)=1 where u = u(x). Approach I am looking at the ...
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What's a time centered Riemann problem?

I am trying to understand the meshless methods as described in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.7395.pdf. I'm having trouble understanding the following step: (Page 7, just after equation 17) Now, rather ...
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Gmsh for 3D volume with inclusions [closed]

In an attempt to create three-dimensional volumes with inclusions in Gmsh I stumble upon a problem which was non-existent in the two-dimensional case. I'm using the OpenCASCADE geometry kernel ...
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Is steady linear elasticity inherently ill-conditioned?

Compared to the transient PDE for linear elasticity, the steady equations appear to less well-conditioned. Are they inherently ill-conditioned without the transient term? The condition number for ...
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Numpy: How to permute array into indices of larger array? [closed]

I have an array of length L with N zeros, and L-N non-zero values. I have another array of length N. I would like to put the values of the shorter array into the positions of the longer array which ...
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Is there any open-source code for a hybrid 2D mesh (triangles and quadrilaterals)?

The question is pretty much the title. Note that I have lots of experience using open-source meshing tool, e.g. Gmsh and OpenFoam blockMesh & snappyHexMesh. Nevertheless, I have no idea on how to ...
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Where does the seemingly official number of certain algorithms come from?

There are a lot of algorithms which seem to have been supplied an official number, such as Algorithm 76, Hierarchical clustering using the minimum spanning tree. Another example is Algorithm 123, ...
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Finite Group (Non-)Isomorphism

I am poking at reproducing some fundamental research in group-theory. In particular, I want to reproduce the OEIS sequence #1. The crux of the problem is not generating potential groups, this can be ...
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Solving advection equation - periodic conditions - using roll python function [closed]

The original post was on stackoverflow : I transfert it here. I have to solve numerically the advection equation with periodic boundaries conditions : u(t,0) = u(t,L) with L the length of system to ...
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How to find the nearest/a near positive definite from a given matrix?

I'm given a matrix. How do I find the nearest (or a near) positive definite from it? The matrix can have complex eigenvalues, not be symmetric, etc. However, all its entries are real valued. The ...
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Finite element convergence rate and possion's ratio

I am running simulations of a cantilever beam where it is fixed on one end and negative force applied to the other end. The first simulation is with 4-node linear quadrilateral elements and the other ...
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2d wave equation with finite differences blowing up

I am (naively) trying to solve the 2d wave equation with finite differences. But the system blows up instantly. For simplicity I set the constant $c=1$, then I am left with $$\Delta u =u_{tt}.$$ I ...
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Are there known accuracy issues between 2D axisymmetric and 3D solutions?

In my full 3D solutions I am solving for the potential throughout a $100\times 200\times 200$ grid. Inside is a ring electrode set to -5V via a Dirichlet boundary condition, and surrounded on all ...
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1+x not backwards stable?

If you compute 1+x for x less than the machine precision, the answer will be 1 which is the ...
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Strain from FEM simulations to strain gauge measurements

I am looking for some intuition in making comparisons of FEM simulations to experimental measurements. In particular, I am interested in comparisons to strain gauge readings, and perhaps even LVDTs. ...
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tea bag flavors mixing algorithm [closed]

I bought three boxes of tea bags with different flavors (A, B, C). I wish to mix them in such a way that - there is never two consecutive bags of the same flavor (ABCCAB is avoided) ; - the mixing ...
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Improve optimization speed for a set of similar problems: Quadratic programming with a warm start

I am repeatedly solving quadratic program, $x^T Q x$ with time dependent linear constraints $Ax=b_t$. Dimension of $x$ is around 10000 and there are around 50 constraints. I want to solve the ...
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Improving convergence of Jacobi iteration to Schur form

I'm using SIMD processor arrays to compute the eigen-decomposition for large numbers of small (up to $32\times 32$) matrices. For assorted technical reasons, Jacobi iteration maps well to the SIMD ...
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Impose Neumann Boundary Condition in advection-diffusion equation 1D

when solving the advection equation in 1D that is: $$\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + c\frac{\partial u}{\partial x} = 0$$ with $u'(t,0) = 0$ and $u(t,L) = 0$ , $u(0,x) = u_{0}$ one numerical ...
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Writing parallel code for molecular computation [duplicate]

I recently moved towards computational biophysics from an experimental science background. As of now, I am learning the fundamentals and doing some basic monte carlo simulations of LJ fluid on my ...
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Condition number of matrix and effects of round off errors

In my numerical linear algebra class, I learned that for some matrices, it could have an element that is a very small number that is approximately 0 (and many orders of magnitude different from all ...
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Applying neumann boundary conditions to diffusion equation solution in python [duplicate]

For the diffusion equation $$\frac{\partial u(x,t)}{\partial t} = D \frac{\partial ^2 u(x,t)}{\partial x^2} + Cu(x,t)$$ with the boundary conditions $u(-\frac{L}{2},t)=u(\frac{L}{2},t)=0$ I've ...
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Minimize cost with Levenberg-Marquart method

I want to minimize a cost function of the form, $$\min_{q,t}\left(q^T\left(\mathcal A + \mathcal B\right)q + t^T\mathcal C t+\delta t+\varepsilon Q(q)^TW(q)t+\lambda\left(1-q^Tq\right)^2\right)$$ ...
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Defining a condition number and termination criteria for Newton's method

The condition number of function evaluation $$\mathrm{cond}(f,x) := \left| \frac{x f'(x)}{f(x)} \right|$$ is infinite at a root of $f$. Hence it is useless for rescaling a tolerance which defines an ...
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Is it possible to obtain a 'relaxing lengths' for 8 node hexaedral element

I am using 3D FEM with 8-node brick elements to model a certain type of growth/expansion, which is not a plastic deformation. First, I apply a pressure/load and I get displacement and the new position ...