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### How to determine the amount of FLOPs my computer is capable of

I would like to determine the theoretical number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) that my computer can do. Can someone please help me with this. (I would like to compare my computer to some ...
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### Understanding how Numpy does SVD

I have been using different methods to calculate both the rank of a matrix and the solution of a matrix system of equations. I came across the function linalg.svd. Comparing this to my own effort of ...
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### Applying Dirichlet boundary conditions to the Poisson equation with finite volume method

I would like to know how Dirichlet conditions are normally applied when using the finite volume method on a cell-centered non-uniform grid, My current implementation simply imposes the boundary ...
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### The meaning of conservative discretization in Galerkin FEM and Discontinuous Galerkin

I do understand the meanning of "conservative discretization" within the FVM/FDM framework, indeed it is well explained in this post. Now, according to the table in this slide (pp.8), it concludes: ...
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### Does Computational Science involve programming?

I read about computational science on Wikipedia, but my understanding is not very clear. Does computational science involve programming? How different is computational science from computational ...
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### Estimation of condition numbers for very large matrices

Which approaches are used in practice for estimating the condition number of large sparse matrices?
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### PDE discretization with the method of rothe and the method of lines (Modular implementation)

The Heat equation is discretized in space with FV (or FEM), and a semi-discrete equation is obtained (system of ODEs). This approach, known as the method of lines, allows to easily switch from one ...
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### Solving a linear equation system with pure Neumann condition

I am trying to solve a linear equation system $\textbf{A}\textbf{x}=\textbf{b}$, e.g. a Poisson equation discretized in strong form, using biCGstab method. Since there are only natural Neumann ...
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### Why can't Householder reflections diagonalize a matrix?

When computing the QR factorization in practice, one uses Householder reflections to zero out the lower portion of a matrix. I know that for computing eigenvalues of symmetric matrices, the best you ...
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### Eigenvectors of a small norm adjustment

I have a dataset that is slowly changing, and I need to keep track of eigenvectors/eigenvalues of its covariance matrix. I've been using scipy.linalg.eigh, but it'...
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### How to directly compute the inverse of an ill-conditioned dense matrix

I know that it is generally a bad idea to compute the inverse matrix directly. However, if it is necessary to compute the inverse of an ill-conditioned invertible dense matrix, then what can I try? ...
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I want to find the roots for $\kappa$ for the equation $$\sqrt{\alpha - 1} \cos{\left (\frac{\sqrt{2} \sqrt{\alpha - 1}}{2 \sqrt{\epsilon}} \right )} \cosh{\left (\frac{\sqrt{2} \sqrt{\alpha + 1}}{2 \... 1answer 2k views ### How can I implement the implicit Euler method for a small nonlinear system of ODEs? I am trying to solve a system of coupled ODEs:$$ \begin{align} \frac{dn_A}{dt} & = e\left[j(t) - f\, θ_H\sinh\left(\frac{g\,n_A}{T}\right)\right] \\ \frac{dθ_H}{dt} & = a\left[bP\,(...
I am trying to discretize the differential operator $\frac{d^2}{dx^2}$ acting on $S^1 = [0,1]$ using finitely many points around a circle at $0, \frac{1}{N}, \frac{2}{N}, \dots, \frac{N-1}{N}$. Here ...