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### Simple particle-in-cell examples

I am studying about the 1D EM-PIC (Electro Magnetics using particle-in-cell) simulation. I want to have a simultaneous time-integration of the electric/magnetic fields plus the motion of free charges ...
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### FEM shape functions on triangular elements: transition from 2D to 3D

I'm writing a code for solving PDEs through the finite element method. In particular, I'm facing with 3D problems, in which I don't know how to calculate shape functions derivatives on the boundaries (...
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### Looking for GPU support on Markov-chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) codes

I am looking for MCMC codes with a GPU suport (like NVIDIA or OpenCL libraries) to make faster run chains. I know there is a plenty of codes that does MCMC but which ones could allow to exploit GPU ...
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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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### Calculating the number of Flops of SPH density calculation

I would like to calculate the number of floating point operations (Flops) my code is performing in my machine. To do so, I would like to be sure I am counting the operations in the inner-most loop ...
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### Developing a meshfree contouring algorithm

I would like to find the contours of a scalar function $u(x,y)$ available as a discrete set of function values $u_i = u(x_i,y_i)$ over a scattered set of points $(x_i,y_i), i=1,...,N$. In my case, the ...
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### Applying the result of Cuthill-McKee in SciPy

I have applied SciPy's implementation of the Cuthill-McKee algorithm to a $48 \times 48$ sparse non-symmetric matrix in Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) format and the output is an array of length $48$ ...
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### Variational loss of hp-Variational Physics Informed Neural Networks for 2D-Poisson Equation in Tensorflow

I am trying to reproduce the results from the hp-VPINN paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.05385.pdf) on tensorflow (v1) for Poisson's equation, particularly the two-dimensional Poisson equation. In one ...
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### Attempt on 2d Advection with FDM - With Code

I tried to implement the 2d advection problem with a velocity field, that is not constant in space. My problem is, that the "mass" of my shifted density gets "eroded" or just ...
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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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### Help with Fourier beam propagation method

I am working on implementing the Fourier beam propagation method in C++. I am really more of a programmer than a physicist but I think I have a good understanding of what I am trying to do. Here is ...
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### What is the difference between Adittive Schwarz as a preprocessor and a solver?

As we all know, the Additive Schwarz approach can be used as either solver or preconditioner, however, my question is, what is the difference between the two? In other words, how to use AS as solver, ...
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### 2-norm and infinty norm of a system in controls

How to compute 2-norm or infinity norm of following system? i am confused whether to calculate using simple matrix theory "where it don't regard for s domain" or H2 and H-infinty norm. ...
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### Stochastic cellular automata - algorithm limited by 1 cell per timestep

Context Let's say I am trying to model the spread of mold in a petri dish, using a stochastic cellular automata approach. The petri dish can be thought of as a grid of 1mm x 1mm squares, each called ...
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### How to solve the integral-like energy equation with Sagdeev potential numerically in Python?

I am trying to numerically solve equation (6) of Lakhina 2021 in Python. The equation is $$\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{d \phi}{d\xi}\right)^2 + S(\phi, M) = 0\, .$$ The Sagdeev potential expression is ...
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### Error in python (jupyter): index 1 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 1 [closed]

I am an amature in python, I wrote a simple code in jupyter. But it is giving an error. I want to plot a function: ...
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### Comparing minimas of two different functions

The goal is to find vectors $x_u$ and $y_i$, both of the same length $f=64$, and to do this the following loss function is minimized: $$\sum_{u, i} (1 + \alpha \cdot r_{ui})(p_{ui} - x_{u}^{T}y_i)^2$$ ...
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### Stability analysis simplification for PDE

I have the nonlinear PDE $$\frac{\partial U(z,t)}{\partial t} + A(U)\frac{\partial U(z,t)}{\partial z} + B(U)U(z,t) + C(z,t) = 0,$$ where $A(U)$ and $B(U)$ are guaranteed to be real and positive. I ...
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### How is the integral of a projection over an element $T$ computed in practice? (deal.II related)

I'm studying an error estimator for the equation $\nabla\cdot(\beta u) + cu = f$ and it contains the following term $$||f - cU_h - \Pi(f-c U_h) ||_T$$ where : $\Pi$ is the local orthogonal $L^2$ ...
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### Algorithm for solving systems which are nearly symmetric/adjoint?

I am familiar with Cholesky decomposition and LU factorization for solving systems of linear equations. I have a problem where I have large sparse matrices (say, 1000x1000 or larger) where only one or ...
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### Why is Time evolving block decimation so efficient?

I have a short question about Time evolving block decimation (TEBD). During a lecture I was told that this method is very efficient in evolving 1D quantum spin systems with only nearest neighbor ...
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### About the the stability of using an explicit scheme on the heat equation

Before I get to the heat equation I'd like to talk about the advection equation. Descritize that with FD in time and BD in space: \dfrac{u^{n+1}_i - u^{n}_i}{\Delta t} + v \dfrac{u^{n}...
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### Is it possible for user written algorithms to outperform libraries' built-in optimized functions?

I've always had this question in mind (even if it may sound vague), but in my numerical analysis courses we've always learned how to analyze and optimize code. However, since most linear algebra ...
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### Type of computer used for computation

In some scientific papers I see that authors provide what type of simulation tool and what type of computer was used for computation. For example: The computations were performed using MATLAB in ...
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### Basis function in a tetraedron for finite elements contex

In the finite element method we need to know a base for the fem spaces. For example, a base for the space $P_1(\hat{K})=<\{1-x-y,x,y,z\}>$ is a typical base for the polynomials of degree less ...
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### Why are higher-order Runge–Kutta methods not used more often?

I was just curious as to why high-order (i.e. greater than 4) Runge–Kutta methods are almost never discussed/employed (at least to my knowledge). I understand it requires greater computational time ...
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### Term for the typical "linear in the larger dimension, quadratic in the smaller" cost for linear algebra

Many dense linear algebra decompositions (QR, SVD...) on an $m\times n$ matrix have cost $$O(\max(m,n)\min(m,n)^2)$$ when implemented in practice on a computer. Is there a colloquial name or a more ...
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### Nonlinear Integer programming (involving binomial calculations) with nonlinear constraints

I am working on a problem to distinguish between two binomial distributions. The resulting optimization problem is nonlinear and involves integer variables (number of binomial trials and number of ...
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### Fortran: Can a procedure, contained in a module, call another procedure contained in the same module? [closed]

For instance, consider a module with the following general structure: ...