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Why is local conservation important when solving PDEs?

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Why is my iterative linear solver not converging?

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Why is Newton's method not converging?

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Mar 29 '19 at 19:12 F14 5

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How to determine if a numerical solution to a PDE is converging to a continuum solution?

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Jan 9 '13 at 16:09 Jed Brown 24.8k

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Which methods can ensure that physical quantities remain positive throughout a PDE simulation?

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Jul 14 '13 at 10:44 M.H. 31

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Portable multicore/NUMA memory allocation/initialization best practices

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What are the best practices for algorithms and implementation of multi-physics simulations?

pde multiphysics implicit-methods software

Dec 3 '11 at 21:26 Sean Farley 1,360

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What is a scalable preconditioner for high-frequency Helmholtz?

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How can I estimate the condition number of a large sparse matrix using PETSc?

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Sep 17 '12 at 14:16 Jed Brown 24.8k

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What spatial discretizations work for incompressible flow with anisotropic boundary meshes?

pde finite-element fluid-dynamics stability incompressible

Jul 22 '13 at 12:26 Jed Brown 24.8k

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Is there a multigrid algorithm that solves Neumann problems and has a convergence rate independent of the number of levels?

pde multigrid

Dec 2 '11 at 7:30 celion 331

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How to construct well-balanced finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic PDEs with source terms?

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Statistical models for local memory/compute, network latency, and bandwidth jitter in HPC

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