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David Ketcheson
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Associate Professor of applied mathematics at KAUST. Some links to learn more about me:

In terms of computational science, my interests are mainly:

  • Numerical analysis of ODE and PDE discretizations
  • Numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs
  • High performance computing and scalable algorithms
  • Scientific software development
  • Scientific computing in Python

I'm a lead developer of the PyClaw package, an extension of Clawpack, which is a finite volume solver for hyperbolic PDEs.

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Is it worthwhile to write unit tests for scientific research codes?
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Is there a high quality nonlinear programming solver for Python?
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Is it common not to use libraries for standard numerical algorithms, and why?
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Is algorithmic analysis by flop-counting obsolete?
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How to link code to publications
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Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics
Jul 19, 2012
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Why is local conservation important when solving PDEs?
Nov 30, 2011
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How can I numerically differentiate an unevenly sampled function?
Dec 19, 2011
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Strange oscillation when solving the advection equation by finite-difference with fully closed Neumann boundary conditions (reflection at boundaries)
Mar 4, 2013
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