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### “This DAE appears to be of index greater than 1” daeic12 (line76) error code

Hi I am trying to solve a set of pde converted into ODE and DAE using central finite difference method. I have used the MATLAB 'solve' command to determine the coefficients of fictitious nodes for ...
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### Understand the need for Welford's online algorithm

I am puzzled by the Wikipedia entry discussing many online algorithms for computing the sample variance, including the Welford's online algorithm. In particular, the sample variance $s_n^2$ can be ...
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### Calling scipy.integrate.odeint, solve_ivp, or any possible python solver in matlab

Do you know any way to call scipy.integrate.odeint, solve_ivp, or any python solver directly within a Matlab code? I have tried ...
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### Plot integral function with scipy and matplotlib

I want to plot a numerical integral function of some function $f$ using scipy and matplotlib. How can I do this? I tried the ...
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### Interpolation using compactly supported radial basis function

I have been struggling for two days with the following problem. I would like to do a $d$-dimensional interpolation over some data. I tried first to use polyharmonic splines, but when the size of data ...
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### Backwards Difference Implicit Method for Nonlinear Parabolic PDE in Python

Original Stack Overflow Question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65683788/indexerror-index-31-is-out-of-bounds-for-axis-1-with-size-31?noredirect=1#comment116218335_65683788 PDE: u_t = u_xx + u(...
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### Technique to find the CFL condition using the Galerkin method in space and finite-difference in time?

I am using the Galerkin method (Discontinuous to be precise) to discretize in space the scalar linear wave equation and the explicit second order centered finite difference scheme to discretize in ...
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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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### full rank update to cholesky decomposition for multivariate normal distribution

This question is a specialization of full rank update to cholesky decomposition, to which I hope to get a more positive answer. When calculating the minus log of the multivariate normal distribution, ...
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### Integrating a wavelike equation with absorbing boundary conditions

I am trying to numerically solve the following equation: $\frac{\partial^{2} \phi}{\partial t^{2}}-\frac{\partial^{2} \phi}{\partial x^{2}}+V(x) \phi(x, t)=0$ On some domain, with: $\phi(x, 0) = I(x)$ ...
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### Gauss Integration of $\sqrt(x)$

I want to construct a gauss integration for the weight function $w(x) = x^{1/2}$ for $$\int_{0}^{1}x^{1/2}f(x)dx = a_{1}f(x_{1})+a_{2}f(x_{2})$$ Solving \begin{align*} a_{1}+a_{2} =& \int_{0}^{...
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### 3D Matrix (Tensor) Operating On a 1D Vector

Say you have a tensor $T$ and the components are represented by a 3 by 3 by 3 matrix. And you want to use that tensor to map a vector $u$ into a new vector $s$, both of which are 3 by 1 column vectors....
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### Solving PDEs in parallel

I have read different approaches on how to solve pdes in parallel which are discretized using finite element method. For example: Non-overlapping domain decomposition approach as mentioned in https://...
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### Parametric nonlinear programming

I believe, I have a parametric nonlinear optimization problem. The non-convex constraints depend on some parameters, and I seek a solution that satisfies these constraints for all parameters in a ...
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### Efficiently compute a projection matrix from Householders reflectors

Let $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ where $m \geq n$. Let $B$ and $\tau$ be the result of applying LAPACK's dgeqrfp method (R on the upper right triangle, and the ...
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### implicit vs. explicit domain decomposition methods

I've been working on a finite element code on unstructured methods, which I've parallelized using the Schur complement method. Here's a summary of how I did it: Assign each triangle of the mesh to a ...
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### Givens rotation vs 2x2 Householder reflection

The usual story of Givens rotations vs Householder reflections is that Householder reflections are better if you want to map a long vector to $e_1$, while Givens is better if you want to map a 2-...
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### Error too large in leapfrog method for solving the wave equation of a vibrating string

I have been trying to figure out what I did wrong for the last two days. I do not know if I actually did something wrong or if the error is supposed to be this large in usual leapfrog problems. I ...
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### Efficient ODE steppers with query of $f$ and $\nabla f$ is efficient

Assume we have an IVP $y'(t) = f(t,y)$, and that $\partial_t f$ and $\nabla f$ are cheap to compute. Assume further that more derivatives are not cheap to compute, or inaccessible for some reason, ...
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### Interpolation of a Concave Mesh

I would like to have an algorithm that interpolates the values attached to nodes in a concave mesh mesh. To be me precise, assume we have a point cloud P (e.g. in 3 dimensions) and a list of edges E ...
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### How to properly calculate CPU and GPU FLOPS performance?

Problem I'm trying to calculate CPU / GPU FLOPS performance but I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly. Let's say we have: A Kaby Lake CPU (clock: 2.8 GHz, cores: 4, threads: 8) A Pascal GPU (clock: ...
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### Best practice for storing hierarchical simulation data

TL,DR What is the accepted best practice in scientific computing circles for storing large quantities of hierarchically structured data? For example, SQL does not play nicely with large sparse ...
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### Finite element analysis software for acoustic and electrostatic

I need to do a simulation for my thesis project involving some piezoelectric nanoparticles in a fluid beamed with ultrasounds. I'm looking for a software for such simulation and for now it seems me ...
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### How to define "Characteristic length in Ansys CFX Power Syntax script?

I am trying to evaluate Reynolds number in Ansys CFX 2020 R2 using CCL/Perl script on different domains in a radial turbine. But for that, I need to define the Characteristic length. So I define the ...
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### How can I compute the gradient of the noiseless image given by the compass operator?

I need to generate an image with 11x11 pixels having in the center of the image a square of 5x5 pixels, with the gray level of the background 0 and the gray level of the square is 50. I need to ...
I want to construct a gauss integration for the weight function: $$w(x) = x^{1/2}$$ $\in(0,1)$ of the form: $$\int_{0}^{1}x^{1/2}f(x)dx = w_{1}f(x_{1})+w_{2}f(x_{2})$$ \begin{align*} w_{1}+w_{2} =...