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### Get interpolated values in user defined 2D grid Paraview

I have a 2D flow and would like to obtain the value of certain scalar field in a set of points forming a regular mesh. These points should not coincide with the nodes of the actual mesh used in the ...
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### Method for implementing QP solver with matrix terms?

I am trying to implement (in code) a QP solver for the following equation: $$\min_{u} u^{T} Wu$$ $$s.t. \; \beta u = \tau_{ref}$$ $$Au \leq b$$ See this document, section 5.1 (Page 35) $u$ is a ...
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### Smoothing FFT result

I am trying to calculate the spectrum of Bremmstrahlung, which involves calculating the Fourier transformed acceleration. I am solving a non-linear ODE to numerically calculate the acceleration in the ...
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### How to use the norminv function in excel

I am given a list of ages from 29-73 and I am asked to calculate what values fall within the middle $95%$,top $10%$, and $P20$ Any help would be greatly appreciated
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### Do most statistical packages and libraries in high-level programming languages rely on LAPACK for their matrix inversion operations?

Possible an open-ended question, but I am wondering if most statistical packages and libraries, for instance, Stata, R, Python's NumPy and MATLAB rely on LAPACK algorithms to perform matrix operations,...
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### Differences between Discrete Fourier Transform and Continuous Fourier Transform?

I am trying to visualize the time dependence of a free particle given an initial wave-function using Python and I just wanted to know if I could use the in built FFT implementation from NumPy to find ...
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### Scipy Spline Interpolation Parameter

Documentation in scipy.interpolate (found at https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/interpolate.html) states: "The parameter variable is given with the keyword argument, u, which ...
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### what algorithm do BLAS and ATLAS use for matrix multiplication

I have searched and what I understood was that they use the naive one with several memory and cache optimization but I wanted to know are they using strassen or copper smith algorithms and if they ...
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### Maximum and Minimum distance from query point within bounding box

I'm reading an article regarding approximating sums using KD-trees (similar to FMM). As part of the effort I'm trying to make sense of this article , which is cited. I'm having trouble understanding ...
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### What guidelines should I follow for simulation software projects?

I am not sure whether this question belongs here, but I would like to give it a try and benefit from the experience of the people at scicomp.SE. From my experience, the software quality in ...
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### Parallelizing Newton-method in solving non-linear systems

Circuit simulation software based on SPICE (such as ngspice) uses Newton-Raphson method to solve non-linear system of equations ...
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### Fenics: solving the same PDE multiple times

I am new to Fenics and just started reading the tutorial Solving PDEs in Python. For simplicity, we can refer to simplest example, page 17 (the linear poisson equation), despite not necessary. My ...
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### Find shortest path around a cylinder represented by 3d triangular mesh

Suppose I have a 3d triangular mesh with the topology of a finite cylinder. Let $C$ be a vertex on that mesh. How can I find the shortest path from $C$ to itself that goes around the cylinder? By ...
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### GPGPU computing, software selection

I am using an existing GCC C++ x86 Qt application that filters, displays and stores results computed by some C code. Since the computation by now got too complex for CPUs I intend to port the small C ...
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### Controllability - Maximum Matching

I found this image on wikipedia referring to Barabasi's work on Network Controllability. I tried to verify it. We have a A matrix of dimensions (20 by 20) made as the image suggests. According to the '...
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### Is using std::valarray considered good practice?

C++ has had the std::valarray class since the C++98 standard. It is meant to facilitate numerical computations, providing the sort of operations one would expect of ...
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### Lapack symmetric update $B^{-1}AB^{-T}$

Does Lapack have a routine that, given symmetric $A=A^T$ and $B$, computes the symmetric matrix $B^{-1}AB^{-T}$ (while preserving symmetry exactly)? It would be enough to have this routine for ...
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### Partial/Extended/Truncated Template Matching

So template matching using correlation is available in a lot of computational packages; OpenCV matchTemplate(), scipy.signal.correlate2d(), IPP CrossCorrNorm, etc. But they all either evaluate ...
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### Palmprint Identification - Why do we align the images before we use the Fourier Transform?

I am currently reading the paper PALMPRINT IDENTIFICATION BY FOURIER TRANSFORM by WENXIN LI, DAVID ZHANG and ZHUOQUN XU about identifying persons based on an image of their palm, one version of the ...
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### ODE Event detection for calculating multiple roots of continuous sinusoidal equation

Hey everyone I have a paper that has a method for computing rise and set times of a satellite given a closed form solution. It is a complicated sinusoidal function and the paper has a method to ...
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### Lattice Boltzmann methods vs Navier stokes/ other eulerian methods for *water* simulation

Note, there is already a question here, however the answers don't answer the original question, let alone specific considerations when dealing with nearly in-compressible fluids (water). Another ...
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### How to Break Coupled ODEs down to first order for Runge-Kutta

My question might seem a bit simple. I am trying to solve a system of ODEs using Runge-Kutta method. I am having difficulty breaking down the equations into a system of first order ones required ...
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### Computing autocorrelations of configurations in Monte Carlo simulations

In the context of Monte Carlo simulations, I am trying to learn how I should ensure that the configurations of my system are not correlated for the chosen interval of measurements. I have found out ...
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### Eigenfaces Algorithm

This might be a silly quesntion but recently I've been trying to program the eigenface algorithm using PCA, so I arranged the face vectors vertically in a matrix X such as: X = [x1,x2,x3,...,xn]; In ...
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### Conjugate Gradient for singular 2D poisson finite element with Neumann Boundary Conditions

Heavily edited question after I realised partly what the problem was I have programmed a simple 2D square finite element solution to the Poisson equation $-\Delta u = f$ The source function ...
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### Ramp least squares estimation

With some given $s$ value, let \begin{aligned} h(\beta)&=\min(\sum_{i=1}^n(Y_i - X_i\beta)^2, s)\\ &=\sum_{i=1}^n(Y_i - X_i\beta)^2-\max(0, \sum_{i=1}^n(Y_i - X_i\beta)...
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### Obtain velocity from imposed energy spectrum using the inverse FFT

I am trying to obtain the spatial representation of $u(x)$ (e.g. velocity) from its energy spectrum $E(k)=k^4\exp(-(k/k_0)^2)$, which is given in the frequency domain, provided $|u(k)|=\sqrt{2E(k)}$. ...
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### Numerical methods for non-linear diffusion

I have the following non-linear diffusion equation, for $\ z(x,t)$: $\ z_t = -C(\sin(\omega t))^m x^{hm}(hm x^{-1}(z_x)^n + n z_{xx} (z_x)^{n-1})$ Any advice for numerical (or analytical) solutions?...
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### Vectorization of Jacobi iteration

Assume I have a linear system of $A x = b$ which I want to solve with Jacobi iteration. Matrix $A$ is given in CSR format. The vectors are dense. The code for Jacobi iteration is quite clear and can ...
Theoretic part From the theory, in Electrostatics inside a real dielectric material between real conductors, in a simple 1D plane geometry between points $P1$ and $P2$, according to the current ...
I was curious if anyone could help or provide a reference for the proof to the following lemma Lemma: Let $P_{1}$ be the set of polynomials of the first degree and let \$W = w(x) : w \in C([0,1]), ...