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### Algorithms for (adaptive?) function plotting

I am looking for algorithms to draw standard 2d-graphs for functions that may or may not have singularities. The purpose is to write a "Mini-CAS", so I have no a priori knowledge of the types of ...
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### Using unconventional programming languages for scientific computation [closed]

Note: the following post may include controversial opinions, so please note that they are only my opinions, and not intended to offend anyone. I'm being programming in some form or the other since ...
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### How to incorporate the boundary conditions with the Galerkin method?

I've been reading some resources on the web about Galerkin methods to solve PDEs, but I'm not clear about something. The following is my own account of what I have understood. Consider the following ...
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### Intel Fortran Compiler: tips on optimization at compilation

I will start with my personal experience in our lab. Back in the ifort 9 and 10 days, we used to be quite aggressive with the optimizations, compiling with -O3 and processor specific flags (-xW -xSSE4....
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### What simple methods are there for adaptively sampling a 2D function?

I have a two-dimensional function $f(x,y)$ whose values I would like to sample. The function is very expensive to compute and it has a complex shape, so I need to find a way to get the most ...
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### Libraries for solving sparse linear systems

There are a number of different libraries out there that solve a sparse linear system of equations, however I'm finding it difficult to figure out what the differences are. As far as I can tell there ...
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### Fast, lightweight C++ tensor library for dimension-agnostic code

I am looking for a C++ tensor library that supports dimension-agnostic code. Specifically, I need to perform operations along each dimension (up to 3), e.g. calculating a weighted sum. The dimensions ...
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### Basic explanation of shape function

I just started studying FEM in a more structured basis compared to what I used to do during my undergraduate courses. I am doing this because, despite the fact that I can use the "FEM" in commercial (...
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### F2Py with allocatable and assumed shape arrays

I would like to use f2py with modern Fortran. In particular I'm trying to get the following basic example to work. This is the smallest useful example I could ...
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