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48	What are the conceptual differences between the finite element and finite volume method?
46	What core skills should every computational scientist have?
44	What are criteria to choose between finite-differences and finite-elements
40	Why is Newton's method not converging?
31	Are there any famous problems/algorithms in scientific computing that cannot be sped up by parallelisation

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+10	What are the conceptual differences between the finite element and finite volume method?
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29	Why is local conservation important when solving PDEs?
22	Why is my iterative linear solver not converging?
21	Why is Newton's method not converging?
19	How to determine if a numerical solution to a PDE is converging to a continuum solution?
18	Which methods can ensure that physical quantities remain positive throughout a PDE simulation?

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248 finite-element × 29	119 krylov-method × 10
160 fluid-dynamics × 25	118 finite-difference × 21

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