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Referring to the discretization of derivatives by Finite differences, and its applications to numerical solutions of partial differential equations.

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Solve beam equation with elastic term using scipy solve_bvp

I want to solve the beam equation with distributed load and elatic term (which depends on how much the beam interact with the terrain) : $$ EI\frac{d^4w}{dx^4}+k*(w(x)-t(x))=q(x) $$ where $q(x)$ is a ...
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1D FDTD simulation of plane wave propagation and the Courant stability condition

I'm currently trying to simulate a simple case of wave propagation in free space before adding in more complexities, and already I'm stumped. I understand the Courant stability condition. However, I ...
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Coupled Partial Differential Equations

I'm trying to solve the following system of coupled differential equations, the two-temperature model for $e$ = electrons and $l$ = lattice. $$ \rho_{e}C_{p,e}\frac{\partial T_{e}}{\partial t} = k_{e}\...
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How can I get more accurate electric scalar potential in 2D closed box?

I am trying to use poisson equation to plot the electric scalar potential in close 2D space. The details in in this video and this one The following in written in Matlab for quick prototype. ...
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Asking advice for implementation of Conservative Finite Difference Scheme for numerically solving Gross-Pitaevskii equation

I am trying to numerically solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for an impurity coupled with a one-dimensional weakly-interacting bosonic bath, given by (in dimensionless units): \begin{align} i \frac{\...
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Imposing higher order finite difference schemes for boundary value problems on a finite interval

I have some questions. I'm going to assume everything is in 1d with a Laplacian operator. If I discretize the Laplacian operator using $p = 2a+1$ grid points with periodic boundary conditions, I ...
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Can domain decomposition methods also be applied to linear systems resulting from finite difference discretizations?

Question In general, do domain decomposition methods (DDMs) require a linear system of equations $Au = f$ to be formed by finite element discretization/method (FEM) of a PDE? Or could one simply use a ...
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Discretization of generalized kinetic term in 2D Poisson partial differential equation

A typical 2D Poisson PDE is given as $$\nabla^2\varphi(x, y)=f(x, y)$$ where the Laplacian term, $\nabla^2\varphi$, can to some degree be interpreted as the kinetic energy (given proper scaling) (...
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Deriving order of accuracy and interpreting a given discretization scheme when underlying method ( finite difference/volume) not known

If a spatial grid is given with time levels like this: to solve the following model problem Now consider the following discretization schemes: Scheme 1 Scheme 2 Usually, to determine order of ...
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Is there a simple way to avoid carbuncles for FD WENO methods?

I have implemented finite-difference WENO scheme for Euler equations (with some variants - WENO-JS, WENO-Z, WENO-M, different flux splitting). It works well, but have problem with so-called carbuncles ...
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Implicit-Explicit Operator Splitting Scheme

I am trying to solve the 2D advection-diffusion equation in cylindrical coordinates: $$ \frac{\partial c}{\partial t} = D\left(\frac{\partial^2 c}{\partial r^2} + \frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial c}{\partial ...
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Are there necessary conditions for SOR algorithm to converge when used for 2D discrete Poisson problem, with PBC, besides solvability condition?

I am trying to solve a 2D poisson problem that is supposed to represent diffusion of chemicals on a grid: $\nabla^2 R_{ij}=f_{ij}$. I am discretizing the problem with the standard central ...
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Implementing Dirichlet BC for the Advection-Diffusion equation using a second-order Upwind Scheme finite difference discretization

i am implementing a Matlab code to solve the following equation numerically : $$ (\frac{\partial c}{\partial t} =-D_{e} \frac{\partial^2 c}{\partial z^2} +U_{z}\frac{\partial c}{\partial z}) $$ with ...
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"Cleanest, most professional" approach to implement a finite differences scheme in dimension greater than two

Coding a finite difference algorithm in 1D does not require a complex mesh. In higher dimensions, you would need a mesh and its connectivity graph to compute the differential operators. Finite ...
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Numerically solving the Advection-diffusion equation with no-flux boundary condition leads to violation of mass conservation

I am trying to solve numerically the advection-diffusion equation of the following form $$\frac{\partial C}{\partial t}=\alpha\frac{\partial^2 C}{\partial x^2}+\beta \frac{\partial C}{\partial x}$$ ...

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