ParametricPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ParametricPlot[{f_x, f_y}, {u, u_min, u_max}] generates a parametric plot of a curve with x and y coordinates f_x and f_y as a function of u. ParametricPlot[{{f_x, f_y}, ...

StreamPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StreamPlot[{v_x, v_y}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a stream plot of the vector field {v_x, v_y} as a function of x and y. StreamPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, {w_x, ...

VectorDensityPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VectorDensityPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, s}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a vector plot of the vector field {v_x, v_y} as a function of x and y, superimposed on a ...

Virtual Shared Memory (Parallel Package Tutorial)

Special-purpose multiprocessing hardware comes in two types, shared memory and distributed memory. In a shared-memory machine, all processors have access to a common main ...

ParametricPlot3D (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ParametricPlot3D[{f_x, f_y, f_z}, {u, u_min, u_max}] produces a three-dimensional space curve parametrized by a variable u which runs from u_min to u_max. ...

ContourPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ContourPlot[f, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a contour plot of f as a function of x and y. ContourPlot[f == g, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] plots ...

StreamDensityPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

StreamDensityPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, s}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a stream plot of the vector field {v_x, v_y} as a function of x and y, superimposed on a ...

Numerical Nonlinear Local Optimization (Mathematica Tutorial)

Numerical algorithms for constrained nonlinear optimization can be broadly categorized into gradient-based methods and direct search methods. Gradient search methods use ...

NIntegrate (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NIntegrate[f, {x, x_min, x_max}] gives a numerical approximation to the integral \[Integral]_x_min^x_max\ f\ d \ x. NIntegrate[f, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}, ...] ...

Concurrency: Managing Parallel Processes (Parallel Package Tutorial)

A process is simply a Mathematica expression being evaluated. A processor is a parallel kernel that performs such evaluations. The command ParallelEvaluate discussed in the ...