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What are the conceptual differences between the finite element and finite volume method?
Aug 12 '13 at 3:51
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What core skills should every computational scientist have?
Feb 2 '12 at 16:04
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What are criteria to choose between finite-differences and finite-elements
Dec 8 '11 at 5:39
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Why is Newton's method not converging?
Nov 30 '11 at 5:23
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Are there any famous problems/algorithms in scientific computing that cannot be sped up by parallelisation
Feb 23 '12 at 3:46
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Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics
Jul 19 '12 at 5:37
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Scientific standards for numerical errors
Oct 9 '12 at 22:47
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Why is my iterative linear solver not converging?
Dec 23 '11 at 2:13
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How can wavelets be applied to PDE?
Jan 27 '12 at 3:03
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When is Newton-Krylov not an appropriate solver?
Nov 30 '13 at 16:32
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Disadvantages of common discretization schemes for CFD simulations
May 27 '12 at 4:22
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Modern resources for learning FEM
Feb 27 '12 at 4:30
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What material should I include with a journal article (or post online) in order to make my computational research reproducible?
Apr 6 '12 at 19:45
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When should I use C++ expression templates in computational science, and when should I *not* use them?
Mar 15 '12 at 1:31
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What is the principle behind the convergence of Krylov subspace methods for solving linear systems of equations?
Jan 29 '12 at 21:54
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Can a Krylov subspace method be used as a smoother for multigrid?
Jan 17 '12 at 13:56
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Higher precision floating-point arithmetic in numerical PDE
Aug 23 '12 at 17:04
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What are the benefits and drawbacks inherent to using classes to encapsulate numerical algorithms?
Jul 12 '12 at 7:47
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Unstructured quad mesh-generation?
Dec 28 '11 at 19:45
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What is the advantage of multigrid over domain decomposition preconditioners, and vice versa?
Dec 31 '11 at 1:27
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When should implicit methods be used in the integration of hyperbolic PDEs?
Nov 30 '11 at 16:16
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Can the advection equation with variable velocity be conservative?
May 19 '13 at 13:45
15
Definition of incompressible flow
Apr 16 '13 at 15:15
15
Costs of lookups versus calculations
Jun 8 '12 at 12:53
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How to address numerical non-associativity for parallel reduction?
May 29 '12 at 22:28
15
How much should scientific software be optimized?
Feb 8 '12 at 23:43
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Log-log parallel scaling/efficiency plots
Mar 17 '13 at 13:48
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Solving a simple Ax=b system in parallel with PETSc
Dec 20 '12 at 1:24
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Solving huge dense linear system?
Jul 21 '12 at 15:44
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Newton-based methods in optimization vs. solving systems of nonlinear equations
Jun 5 '12 at 3:14
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