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Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation, is a division of science, and more specifically of the computer sciences, that uses advanced computing capability to understand and solve complex physical problems. The field spans algorithms, meaning the mathematical models, computational models and computer simulations developed to solve problems in science, engineering and the humanities; computer hardware that develops and optimizes the advanced system hardware, firmware, networking and data management components needed for computationally demanding problems; and the computing infrastructure that supports both the science and engineering problem solving and the underlying computer and information science. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Using advanced computing capability to understand and solve complex physical science problems 1
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Source Secant method (Wikipedia)
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Source Simpson's Rule (Wikipedia)
Source Stanislaw Ulam (MacTutor biography)
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Source Upwind scheme (Wikipedia)
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    Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation (SC), is a division of science, and more specifically the computer sciences, which uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex physical problems in science.
  • Associated With: Parallel Computing, Methods and algorithms
    In addition, parallel computing is heavily used in scientific computing to find solutions of large problems in a reasonable amount of time.
  • Associated With: Bioinformatics, Computational biology
    Going beyond current bioinformatics approaches, computational biology needs to develop new methods to discover meaningful patterns in these large data sets.
  • In Group: Computing for the Sciences and Engineering, lead section
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IEEE Computer Society History Committee: Computer Pioneers: James (Jim) Hardy Wilkinson
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numerical analyst, developer of the so-called "backward" error analysis
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Wikipedia: Alston Scott Householder
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specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis
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Cleve Moler, Wikipedia
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specialized in numerical analysis
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Wikipedia: William Kahan
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He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."
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James Demmel - Wikipedia
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In 1999, Demmel was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing.
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Wikipedia: Amber S. Boehnlein
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Computational Physics
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RANDU (Wikipedia)
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RANDU is an obsolete method for generating random numbers used primarily in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Crank-Nicolson method (Wikipedia)
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the Crank-Nicolson method is a finite difference method used for numerically solving the heat equation and similar partial differential equations.
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Dormand-Prince method (Wikipedia)
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    is an embedded method for solving ordinary differential equations (ODE).
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    Dormand and Prince chose the coefficients of their method to minimize the error of the fifth-order solution.
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    Dormand and Prince chose the coefficients of their method to minimize the error of the fifth-order solution.
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Arnoldi iteration (source article)
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In numerical linear algebra, the Arnoldi iteration is an eigenvalue algorithm and an important example of an iterative method.
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Walter Edwin Arnoldi (source article)
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an eigenvalue algorithm used in numerical linear algebra
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Monte Carlo method (source article)
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are a broad class of computational algorithms based on repeated random sampling
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Stanislaw Ulam (MacTutor biography)
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He also devised the Monte-Carlo method widely used in solving mathematical problems using statistical sampling.
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About GNU Octave (project page)
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primarily intended for numerical computations
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Carl Runge (MacTutor)
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Carl Runge worked on a procedure for the numerical solution of algebraic equations
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Welch's method (Wikipedia)
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It is used in physics, engineering, and applied mathematics for estimating the power of a signal at different frequencies.
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Steffensen's method (Wikipedia)
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an iterative method named after Johan Frederik Steffensen for numerical root-finding
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Householder's method (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, and more specifically in numerical analysis, Householder's methods are a class of root-finding algorithms
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Iterative proportional fitting (Wikipedia)
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is the operation of finding the fitted matrix
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Upwind scheme (Wikipedia)
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In computational physics, the term advection scheme refers to a class of numerical discretization methods for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations.
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Beeman's algorithm (Wikipedia)
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It was designed to allow high numbers of particles in simulations of molecular dynamics
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Durand-Kerner method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, the Weierstrass method or Durand-Kerner method
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Laguerre's method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, Laguerre's method
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Biconjugate gradient stabilized method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical linear algebra, the biconjugate gradient stabilized method
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Cash-Karp method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, the Cash-Karp method
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NA Digest, Volume 20, Issue 25: Jeff Cash announcement
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Jeff's research has been mainly focused on the solution of difference and differential equations, with an emphasis on mathematical software.
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Graeffe's method (Wikipedia)
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Graeffe's method or Dandelin-Lobachesky-Graeffe method is an algorithm for finding all of the roots of a polynomial.
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Aitken's delta-squared process (Wikipedia)
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Aitken's delta-squared process or Aitken extrapolation is a series acceleration method used for accelerating the rate of convergence of a sequence.
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Aberth method (Wikipedia)
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is a root-finding algorithm developed in 1967 for simultaneous approximation of all the roots of a univariate polynomial.
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SIMPLE algorithm (Wikipedia)
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the SIMPLE algorithm is a widely used numerical procedure to solve the Navier-Stokes equations.
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Wikipedia: LU decomposition
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lower-upper (LU) decomposition or factorization factors a matrix as the product of a lower triangular matrix and an upper triangular matrix (see matrix multiplication and matrix decomposition).
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Wikipedia: Runge-Kutta methods
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In numerical analysis, the Runge-Kutta methods (English: RUUNG-ə-KUUT-tah) are a family of explicit and implicit iterative methods, which include the Euler method, used in discretization for the approximate solutions of differential equations.
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Wikipedia: Nelder-Mead method
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Nelder-Mead method (also downhill simplex method, amoeba method, or polytope method) is a numerical method used to find a local minimum or maximum of an objective function in a multidimensional space.
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QR algorithm (Wikipedia)
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QR algorithm or QR iteration is an eigenvalue algorithm: that is, a procedure to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix.
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Conjugate gradient method (Wikipedia)
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conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose matrix is positive-semidefinite.
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Jacobi Eigenvalue Algorithm (Wikipedia)
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Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm is an iterative method for the calculation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real symmetric matrix (a process known as diagonalization).
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Gauss-Seidel method (Wikipedia)
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Gauss-Seidel method, also known as the Liebmann method or the method of successive displacement, is an iterative method used to solve a system of linear equations.
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Brent's method (Wikipedia)
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Brent's method is a hybrid root-finding algorithm combining the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation.
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Simpson's Rule (Wikipedia)
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Simpson's rules are several approximations for definite integrals, named after Thomas Simpson (1710-1761).
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Remez algorithm (Wikipedia)
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Remez algorithm or Remez exchange algorithm, published by Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez in 1934, is an iterative algorithm used to find simple approximations to functions, specifically, approximations by functions in a Chebyshev space that are the best in the unifo
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Bareiss algorithm (Wikipedia)
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Bareiss algorithm, named after Erwin Bareiss, is an algorithm to calculate the determinant or the echelon form of a matrix with integer entries using only integer arithmetic; any divisions that are performed are guaranteed to be exact (there is no remainder).
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Ellipsoid method (Wikipedia)
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ellipsoid method is an iterative method for minimizing convex functions over convex sets.
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Wikipedia: Newton-Raphson Method
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In numerical analysis, the Newton-Raphson method, also known simply as Newton's method, named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a root-finding algorithm which produces successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.
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Secant method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, the secant method is a root-finding algorithm that uses a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate a root of a function f.
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Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno algorithm (Wikipedia)
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In numerical optimization, the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS) algorithm is an iterative method for solving unconstrained nonlinear optimization problems.
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Broyden's method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, Broyden's method is a quasi-Newton method for finding roots in k variables.
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Monte Carlo integration (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, Monte Carlo integration is a technique for numerical integration using random numbers.
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Euler method (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics and computational science, the Euler method (also called the forward Euler method) is a first-order numerical procedure for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with a given initial value.
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Jacobi method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical linear algebra, the Jacobi method (a.k.a. the Jacobi iteration method) is an iterative algorithm for determining the solutions of a strictly diagonally dominant system of linear equations.
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Halley's method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, Halley's method is a root-finding algorithm used for functions of one real variable with a continuous second derivative.
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Fixed-point iteration (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, fixed-point iteration is a method of computing fixed points of a function.
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Cuthill-McKee algorithm (Wikipedia)
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In numerical linear algebra, the Cuthill-McKee algorithm (CM), named after Elizabeth Cuthill and James McKee, is an algorithm to permute a sparse matrix that has a symmetric sparsity pattern into a band matrix form with a small bandwidth.
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FTCS scheme (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, the FTCS (forward time-centered space) method is a finite difference method used for numerically solving the heat equation and similar parabolic partial differential equations.
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Backward Euler method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis and scientific computing, the backward Euler method (or implicit Euler method) is one of the most basic numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations.
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Multigrid method (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, a multigrid method (MG method) is an algorithm for solving differential equations using a hierarchy of discretizations.
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Gauss-Legendre quadrature (Wikipedia)
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In numerical analysis, Gauss-Legendre quadrature is a form of Gaussian quadrature for approximating the definite integral of a function.
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Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method (or Fehlberg method) is an algorithm in numerical analysis for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations.
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