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### How can I prove numerical diffusion in upwind scheme for transport equation

I was just implementing the upwind scheme for a linear transport equation $u_t + cu_x = 0$ where $c=0.5$ and I saw that the solution was indeed advected but over time it starts to diffuse. Can anyone ...
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### Does the finite element method impose any restrictions on the Peclet number for numerical stability?

Background on finite volume method When discretising the flux with a central difference stencil of the the advection-diffusion equation restriction $\frac{ah}{d} < 2$ must be observed for the ...
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### Tikhonov regularization in the non-negative least square - NNLS (python:scipy)

I am working on a project that I need to add a regularization into the NNLS algorithm. Is there a way to add the Tikhonov regularization into the NNLS implementation of scipy [1]? [2] talks about it, ...
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### Future of OpenCL?

The OpenCL programming paradigm promises to be a royalty free opens standard for heterogenous computing. Should we invest our time in developing software based on OpenCL? Pros/cons?
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### Finding which triangles points are in

Suppose I have a 2D mesh consisting of nonoverlapping triangles $\{T_k\}_{k=1}^N$, and a set of points $\{p_i\}_{i=1}^M \subset \cup_{k=1}^N T_K$. What is the best way to determine which triangle each ...
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### FeniCS: Visualizing high order elements

I've just started messing around with FEniCS. I am solving Poisson with 3rd order elements and would like to visualize the results. However, when I use plot(u), the visualization is just a linear ...
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### Smallest eigenvalue without inverse

Suppose $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a symmetric, positive definite matrix. $A$ is big enough that it's expensive to solve $Ax=b$ directly. Is there an iterative algorithm for finding the ...
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### Matrix exponential of a skew-Hermitian matrix with fortran 95 and LAPACK

I'm just getting tucked into fortran 95 for some quantum mechanics simulations. Honestly, I've been spoiled by Octave so I've taken matrix exponentiation for granted. Given a (small, $n\leq 36$) skew-...
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### calculating eigenvector components of a given vector

I have some vector $V$ which can be decomposed into the eigenspace of the hermitian sparse operator $M$: $V = \sum_i v_i \hat{m}_i$ Is there a way to find the $\hat{m}_i$ (the eigenvector itself) ...
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### Fourth order IMEX Runge-Kutta method

I am looking for the Butcher tableau of a fourth order accurate Runge-Kutta method with IMEX splitting. I have been reading the ''classical'' paper on the subject by Ascher, Ruuth and Spiteri as well ...
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### What guidelines should I use when choosing a scalable linear solver?

There are many different linear solvers, some which work best for diagonally dominant matrices, some for symmetric, some for positive definite ones, some for banded matrices, etc... There are direct ...
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### A good, simple book/resource on Parallel Programming in C++ for scientific computing

I am a Mechanical Engineering grad student, currently working on a project which will be scaled up in the new future to require quite some processing power. I am using C++ for the code that I have, ...
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### Diagonal update of a symmetric positive definite matrix

$A$ is a $n \times n$ symmetric positive definite (SPD) sparse matrix. $G$ is a sparse diagonal matrix. $n$ is large ($n$ >10000) and the number of nonzeros in the $G$ is usually 100 ~ 1000. $A$ has ...
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### Is there a multigrid algorithm that solves Neumann problems and has a convergence rate independent of the number of levels?

Multigrid methods usually solve Dirichlet problems on levels (e.g. point Jacobi or Gauss-Seidel). When using continuous finite element methods, it is much less expensive to assemble small Neumann ...
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### PDEs in Many Dimensions

I know that most methods of finding approximate solutions to PDEs scale poorly with the number of dimensions, and that Monte Carlo is used for situations that call for ~100 dimensions. What are good ...
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### What's the current state of the art regarding algorithms for the singular value decomposition?

I'm working on a header-only matrix library to provide some reasonable degree of linear algebra capability in as simple a package as possible, and I'm trying to survey what the current state of the ...
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### Numerically stable explicit solution of small linear system

I have an inhomogeneous linear system $$Ax=b$$ where $A$ is a real $n\times n$ matrix with $n\leq 4$. The nullspace of $A$ is guaranteed to be of zero dimension so the equation has a unique ...
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### Sensitivity of BFGS to initial Hessian approximations

I'm trying to implement the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno method to find the minimum of a function. I need two initial guesses $x_{-1}$ & $x_0$ and an initial Hessian Matrix approximation $B_0$...