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“When we use numerical solution EXCEPT analytical solution? What
are the significant of numerical solution?”
A solution to a problem that can be written in "closed form" in terms of known
functions, constants, etc., is often called an analytic solution. Note that this use of
the word is completely different from its use in the terms analytic continuation,
analytic function, etc. The numerical solution has been compared with an analytical
solution with good agreement between the two solutions The numerical scheme has
been found to be accurate and hence would be useful for modeling actual shallow
and flow involving moving shoreline, including flow in lakes, storm surges and flow
in tidal flats

Imagine you are trying to solve an equation for an unknown variable, such as: x - 5 = 0. We say
we have an analytic solution if we can actually solve the equation explicitly for the unknown
variable. In this case, it is easy to see that the explicit analytic solution is x = 5, and that this is
the exact solution. If we were not so smart, we might develop an "algorithm" on a computer to
solve this equation numerically.

The algorithm would test various values for x, and then stop with a "solution" when the equation
was satisfied to some chosen tolerance. For example, we might demand that the computer should
solve this equation to an accuracy of 0.5. Then the computer would follow the algorithm until it
found a solution to this degree of accuracy. Given an initial guess x = 1, depending on the
algorithm, it might come up with the following guesses: x = 2.2 (no good), x = 3.3 (no good), x =
4.6 (good to the tolerance we specified), and return the "solution" x = 4.6! An efficient algorithm
would come up with a solution quickly.

Note that if we want to be more accurate, as scientists do in their predictions, say about black
holes, we might specify a tolerance that is much smaller, like 0.001. The computer might
eventually get a result after the following sequence: 2.2, 3.3, 4.6, 5.2, 5.05, 4.98, 5.0005, and
then return with the solution x = 5.0005. Of course, it takes much more work to solve the
equation to this level of accuracy.

For such a simple equation we would never use a computer to get a solution. But the Einstein
field equations contain tens of thousands of terms, and no analytic solution is possible. So we
must develop algorithms to solve these equations efficiently and accurately on very large
computers. The numerical solution we get in the end is essentially a collection of numbers that
specify the strength of the many components of the gravitational field at various points in space,
and at various times as well. This numerical solution must then be analyzed and understood
through graphical representation of the data.
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