Using Computer Design and Simulation to Improve Manufacturing Productivity

Abstract

Our work on Simulaid, our simulator generation environment, is continuing. During the past quarter, we have implemented a prototype simulation environment and used it to construct a simple simulation. The simulator is specified in a few pages of text, defining the mathematical model and the method for solving it. The Simulaid system, given this specification as input, constructs a simulator for that problem. The first simulator we specified solves a simple fluid flow problem. The mathematical model contains definitions for the primitive objects in this simulator (fluids, boundary sections, and boundary conditions, as well as the equation used to model the flow (in this case Laplace's equation). The simulation specification, which provides a method for interpreting the mathematical model, uses the boundary element method to solve the partial differential equation defined in the model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA231473

Entities

People

  • John E. Hopcroft

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Element Methods
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Wave Equations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering