Continuous-System Simulation by Use of Digital Computer A
State-of-the-art Survey and Perspectives for Development
Abstract
This paper briefly describes and surveys existing methods and program packages
for the simulation of continuous systems described by ordinary differential
equations. The specific problems arising in selecting the digital computer as
a tool to perform simulation studies are outlined. The major demands on and
features of simulation packages such as algorithms for numerical integration,
the sorting procedure, the associated procedural language and the associated
macro language are discussed in detail, and a comparison of several commonly
used simulation packages is given in tabular form. General trends for the
development of new simulation packages, as well as some personal suggestions
towards this, close the paper.
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