English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient resolution of the Colebrook equation

200 papers

The Colebrook equation is a popular model for estimating friction loss coefficients in water and gas pipes. The model is implicit in the unknown flow friction factor f. To date, the captured flow friction factor f can be extracted from the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Dejan Brkić , Pavel Praks

The function $y = g(x) = \mathrm{log}\big(W(e^x)\big)$, where $W()$ denotes the Lambert W function, is the solution to the equation $y + e^y = x$. It appears in various problem situations, for instance the calculation of current-voltage…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Ken Roberts

Empirical Colebrook equation from 1939 is still accepted as an informal standard to calculate friction factor during the turbulent flow through pipes from smooth with almost negligible relative roughness to the very rough inner surface. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Pavel Praks , Dejan Brkic

In this article, we deal with the efficient computation of the Wright function in the cases of interest for the expression of solutions of some fractional differential equations. The proposed algorithm is based on the inversion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Lidia Aceto , Fabio Durastante

We introduce a new iterative method for computing solutions of elliptic equations with random rapidly oscillating coefficients. Similarly to a multigrid method, each step of the iteration involves different computations meant to address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 S. Armstrong , A. Hannukainen , T. Kuusi , J. -C. Mourrat

In computational molecular science, calculation of electrostatic interactions involving charged atoms - the strongest interactions in condensed phases, is a major bottleneck. We propose a quantum-classical algorithm for fast, yet, accurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Mansur Ziiatdinov , Igor Novikov , Farid Ablayev , Valeri Barsegov

Solutions to a wide variety of transcendental equations can be expressed in terms of the Lambert $\mathrm{W}$ function. The $\mathrm{W}$ function, occurring frequently in applications, is a non-elementary, but now standard mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Lajos Lóczi

This paper introduces a new numerical method for approximating the Lambert W function in the real domain. The method transforms the function into a simpler form that allows iterative refinement of an initial guess. Two iterative strategies…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Narinder Kumar Wadhawan

We propose a quantum algorithm to solve systems of nonlinear algebraic equations. In the ideal case the complexity of the algorithm is linear in the number of variables $n$, which means our algorithm's complexity is less than $O(n^{3})$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Peng Qian , Wei-Cong Huang , Gui-Lu Long

The Lambert W function has utility for solving various exponential and logarithmic equations arranged in the form of $g(x)e^{g(x)}$. Using the Lambert W function and tetration, a variety of categorized inversion formulas are presented.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Sidney Edwards

In this work, an efficient approximation scheme has been proposed for getting accurate approximate solution of nonlinear partial differential equations with constant or variable coefficients satisfying initial conditions in a series of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Prakash Kumar Das , M. M. Panja

The Colebrook-White equation is the widely used basis for the calculation of the friction factor lambda for flows in pipes and ducts. Because this equation is implicit in lambda, many solutions have been developed to ease the calculation in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ernst Grosse-Dunker

Using only a limited number of computationally expensive functions, we show a way how to construct accurate and computationally efficient approximations of the Colebrook equation for flow friction. The presented approximations are based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Pavel Praks , Dejan Brkic

We describe an exact and highly efficient numerical algorithm for solving a special but important class of convection-diffusion equations. These equations occur in many problems in physics, chemistry, or biology, and they are usually hard…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Narain Karedla , Jan Christoph Thiele , Ingo Gregor , Jörg Enderlein

We present a MATLAB function for the numerical evaluation of the Faddeyeva function w(z). The function is based on a newly developed accurate algorithm. In addition to its higher accuracy, the software provides a flexible accuracy vs…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Mofreh R. Zaghloul , Ahmed N. Ali

We describe an algorithm to evaluate all the complex branches of the Lambert W function with rigorous error bounds in interval arithmetic, which has been implemented in the Arb library. The classic 1996 paper on the Lambert W function by…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Fredrik Johansson

We study the iterative algorithm proposed by S. Armstrong, A. Hannukainen, T. Kuusi, J.-C. Mourrat to solve elliptic equations in divergence form with stochastic stationary coefficients. Such equations display rapidly oscillating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Chenlin Gu

In this work we describe a fast and stable algorithm for the computation of the orthogonal moments of an image. Indeed, orthogonal moments are characterized by a high discriminative power, but some of their possible formulations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 C. Di Ruberto , L. Putzu , G. Rodriguez

This paper introduces an efficient algorithm for computing the general oscillatory matrix functions. These computations are crucial for solving second-order semi-linear initial value problems. The method is exploited using the scaling and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Dongping Li , Xue Wang , Xiuying Zhang

A fast algorithm (linear in the degrees of freedom) for the solution of linear variable-coefficient rational-order fractional integral and differential equations is described. The approach is related to the ultraspherical method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Nicholas Hale , Sheehan Olver
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›