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Numerical methods for discontinuous r.s. ODEs

what are state of art methods for numerical solution of ODEs with discontinuous right side? I'm mostly interested piecewise-smooth right side functions, e.g. sign. I'm trying to solve the equation of ...
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What are some applications which require interval arithmetic?

I have a very basic notion about interval arithmetic (IA), but it seems to be a very interesting branch of computational science both theoretically and practically. It is clear that the obvious ...
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How to reorder variables to produce a banded matrix of minimum bandwidth?

I'm trying to solve a 2D Poisson equation by finite differences. In the process, I obtain a sparse matrix with only $5$ variables in each equation. For example, if the variables were $U$, then the ...
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Why isn't my Matrix-Vector Multiplication Scaling?

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to include everything that I thought was relevant in the first go. What I want I am implementing a parallel version of Krylov Subspace Methods for Dense Matrices....
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Puzzling remark about stability region of fifth-order Runge-Kutta method

I came across a puzzling remark in the paper P. J. van der Houwen, The development of Runge-Kutta methods for partial differential equations, Appl. Num. Math. 20:261, 1996 On lines 8ff on page 264, ...
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What is the correct way of integrating in astronomy simulations?

I'm creating a simple astronomy simulator that should use Newtonian physics to simulate movement of planets in a system (or any objects, for that matter). All the bodies are circles in an Euclidean ...
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How is B3LYP implemented in Gaussin 0*, GAMESS-US, Molpro, … etc?

Specifically I want to extend work involving B3LYP started with Gaussian 03 but continued with GAMESS-US. The energies provided by the default B3LYP methods are not the same. There is a discussion ...
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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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Efficient computation of the matrix square root inverse

A common problem in statistics is computing the square root inverse of a symmetric positive definite matrix. What would be the most efficient way of computing this? I came across some literature (...
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