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### How to determine the orientation of convex/concave hexahedra?

I am writing a code that checks the orientation of a list of vertices (along with face connectivity) describing both convex and concave hexahedra. The face connectivity table stores the list of vertex ...
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### Efficiency of scipy.sparse.linalg.expm_multiply with sparse vs unsparse vectors

From the package scipy.sparse.linalg in Python, calling expm_multiply(X, v) allows you to compute the vector ...
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### deal.ii - ParaView "warp by scalar" of my output is not continuous

During our finite element course, we've solved the linear elasticity problem in 2D on a square (GridGenerator::hyper_cube) with $Q_1$ bilinear finite elements in ...
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### Imposing pressure variation instead of Dirichlet boundary conditions on Finite Element Method

I always see Finite Element codes solving PDE with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. But, I have a problem now consisting of a straight cylinder with a circular base (a simple 3D tube), with ...
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### Finite element method for Stokes and Navier--Stokes with square elements only

I wanted to learn how to implement a code for the Stokes and Navier--Stokes equations 2D/3D. I already know how to implement it when the elements are triangles or tetrahedral. Do exists finite element ...
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### Learning computational science through guided discovery

I am currently trying to get through Pattern Classification by Duda et al (for a course). However, the book seems too dense for me. Pattern recognition seems like a topic that could be better learned ...
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### Applying Neumann boundaries to Crank-Nicolson solution in python

Consider the heat equation $$u_t = \kappa u_{xx}$$ with boundary conditions of $$u(x,0)=0\\ u(0,t)=100\\ u(l,t)=0$$ Numerical analysis by pyton can be done with ...
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### A better word to indicate slowness/high latency?

We are comparing two techniques in computer science. We want to say X has "significantly high latency" when executed on system Y. Is there a better one-word term we can use for the above to ...
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### About the condition $\ker(B_h) \subset \ker(B)$ in mixed finite elements formulation

I'm studying mixed finite elements. The problem is a classical saddle-point one: we seek for $(u,p)$ in $V \times Q$: $$A u + B^t p = f$$ $$Bu = g$$ where $A: V \rightarrow V', B:V \rightarrow Q'$ ...
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### Time complexity and its formula [closed]

Is there any example support the case of $O(n^k)$ where $k$ has a fixed calculated value for every $n$ and $k$ is not a constant value for all $n$. As $k$ depends on the value of $n$ in polynomial ...
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### Locking phenomena for $P1 - P0$ elements

Consider the Stokes problem and the usual divergence operator $B:V \rightarrow Q'$, $\langle Bv, q\rangle = b(v,q)=(\operatorname{div} v,q)$ and its discrete versione $B_h : V_h \rightarrow Q_h'$. In ...
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### Finite Difference Method on a function with multiple elements of the same array

First time posting here, so I apologize for any missing info upfront. I am working on a program in VBA that calculates a function (which itself calls another function), then calculates the derivative ...
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### Parameter explained by many distributions

If we had, for example, labeled data, where for each entry (label) we have several data distributions associated to it, how can I get something meaningful from them? Is this a solvable problem? Is ...
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### Invert a huge sparse operator;

please help me with this question, I want to invert a huge sparse (non-circulant) this below in a $Ax=y$ equation: $$(\lambda I+ \beta D+ \sigma C)x=y$$ where I is an Identity Matrix,D is a Diagonal ...
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### Finding the source of numerical instability in a electrostatic problem solved by conformal mapping

I'm using conformal mapping to solve a 2D electrostatic problem (calculating the potential $u(x,y)$ in the plane). Let $C_1$ and $C_2$ be two circles at an electric potential $U_1$ and $U_2$, ...
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### Why can bad jacobians sometimes works better for implicit ODE method?

I'm solving a system of stiff ODEs describing atmospheric chemistry and transport. I am using CVODE BDF from Sundials Computing. I have two ways to approximate the jacobian: Allow CVODE to ...
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### Understanding inf-sup conditions for classical saddle point problems

I'm studying the inf-sup conditions for saddle point problems. I'm referring to the usual one $$\begin{cases}Au + B^t p = f \\Bu=g \end{cases}$$ In the book I'm using (Ern - Guermond: Theory and ...
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### Matlab - Equality between 2 Fisher matrices constructed in a different way

I want to know if, on a Fisher matrix, the projection operation (with a Jacobian matrix) commutes with a matricial inversion operation. The 2 ways to build these 2 matrices are: 1) First method: 1.1) ...
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### Procedure to convert continuous equations of motion to discrete version

Let's take a mobile robot and suppose we know its continuous equations of motion, for example this car-like simple model. Now if I am simulating this robot in a continuous 2D plane, then coding the ...
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### How can I find the maximum equal-split flow of a network

I am working on a program currently that works out the maximum flow through a network using the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm, and that works fine, however, I need the final flow to meet the constraint ...
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### Causes for different results for different number of nodes in MPI

I am trying to develop what might be called legacy Fortran code from my group. Upon testing, I found that the program (which takes about a day to run on 20 processes) works when run on a single node (...

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