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### Identifying an unknown P.D.E. from solution data

I have a black-box simulation that produces the time evolution of a probability density function p(x, t) in 1 dimension from arbitrary initial conditions p(x, 0). The underlying simulation occurs on a ...
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### Biot-savart numerical integration

I have a mesh structure of tetrahedrals and I know the current density on each node. I want to evaluate the magnetic flux density. Therefore, I use Gaussian quadrature. However, I do not know how to ...
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### coarsening coefficient matrixes (A2h, A4h...) for geometric multigrid method in 2-D/3-D

I am learning about multigrid methods from the textbook section 6.3 Multigrid Methods, which shows a geometric multigrid algorithm for 1-D examples in detail, including how to build restriction/...
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### Extracting a mid-plane for thick shell analysis

I have a complex part that contains features of the form shown in the figure below. Because of the cost of 3D finite element simulation of the part, I want to try an analysis with 2D thick shells. ...
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### Increasing V-cycles for constant Coarsest Grid Size and increasing Fine Grid size

Problem statement I implemented geometric multigrid for $-\nabla^{2}=f$ where $f=\frac{3\pi^{2}}{4}sin \frac{\pi x}{2} sin \frac{\pi y}{2} sin \frac{\pi z}{2}$ on $\Omega \in [0,1]$ on a unit cube. ...
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### Mesh aspect ratio issue with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)

I am working on implementation of AMR for my finite volume code. Let me use a 2-D mesh to describe my question. Starting with SINGLE initial cell (let the mesh refine level k = 0) as a root of a quad-...
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### Is there a high quality nonlinear programming solver for Python?

I have several challenging non-convex global optimization problems to solve. Currently I use MATLAB's Optimization Toolbox (specifically, fmincon() with algorithm=<...
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### Rapidly determining whether or not a dense matrix is of low rank

In a software project that I'm working on, certain computations are vastly easier for dense low-rank matrices. Some problem instances involve dense low-rank matrices, but they're given to me in full, ...

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