Numerical calculations are just a part of the way we do science now. It isn't cheating, it's a legitimate method. If the results of the numerical calculation agree with actual data, then it works.

Shuiping Yang, Aiguo Xiao, AN EFFICIENT NUMERICAL METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH TWO CAPUTO DERIVATIVES, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 34, No. 2 (March 2016), pp.

Who doesn’t love numerical calculations? When I teach this stuff in class, students usually use the following recipe: Find the forces on the object. Find the new momentum (based on the force and ...

Scientists developed a method combining effective theory and duality transformations to simplify and solve complex quantum systems with strong interactions.

Zhanping Song, Xiaoxu Tian, Qi Liu, Yuwei Zhang, Heng Li, Guannan Zhou, Numerical analysis and application of the construction method for the small interval tunnel in the turn line of metro, Science ...

A research team led by TU Darmstadt has transformed a difficult problem in quantum physics into a much simpler version through innovative reformulation – without losing any important information. The ...