SIMLAB: Automatically Creating Physical Systems Simulators

Abstract

SimLAB, a software environment for creating simulators directly from computer-readable physics models, is based on the following concept: creating physical systems simulators should be as simple as describing the underlying physics to a colleague. Rather than programming in a conventional programming language, a SIMLAB user expresses physics models (and thus simulators) directly in terms of the concepts, quantities, and equations familiar to a scientist or engineer. The benefits of the SimLAB approach include: (1) reducing the time and effort required to create simulators, (2) providing more understandable and reliable simulators, and (3) support for more sophisticated simulators, e.g., for multiple domain problems, which have proved intractible in the past.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA250970

Entities

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  • James F. Cremer
  • Richard S. Palmer

Organizations

  • Cornell University

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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
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  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Engineering
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Transfer
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  • Physics

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