Tag Archives: Iterative solvers

Scipy Linalg functions stopped working

I recently noticed that the iterative linear algebra solvers in my pyLinAlgfuncs3.xlsb spreadsheet had stopped working. It turned out that the optional tolerance argument had been renamed ‘rtol’. Changing all the occurrences of the name in the Python code fixed … Continue reading

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Scipy Functions with Excel and pyxll 7 – Linear Algebra

This post looks at linking Excel to the Scipy linear algebra functions using pyxll, and also using the PyPardiso solver. Previous posts on this topic include: The pyLinAlgfuncs3 spreadsheet, with associated Python code in pyLinalgfuncs3.py and pyScipy3.py, are included in the … Continue reading

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Making Finite Element Analysis go faster …

… with Numba and Scipy sparse matrix functions. As promised in the previous post in this series, I will be looking at speeding up the formation and solving of matrix functions for the analysis of structural frames, using Excel and … Continue reading

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