Continuous system simulation in Python

[Nicolas Pernetty]

Thanks, but what is really difficult is not to understand how to design
the program which solve a specific problem but to design a generic
framework for solving all these kinds of problem. And in a simple enough
way for basic programmers (but good scientists !) to handle it.

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On 6 Oct 2005 17:04:01 -0700, "hrh1818" <howardrh at westerncom.net> wrote
:

> A good starting point is the book "Python Scripting for Computational
> Science" by Hans Petter Langtangen.  The book covers topics that go
> from simulating second order mechanical systems to solving partial
> differentail equations.
> 
> Howard
> 
> Nicolas Pernetty wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for any work/paper/ressource about continuous system
> > simulation using Python or any similar object oriented languages (or
> > even UML theory !).
> >
> > I'm aware of SimPy for discrete event simulation, but I haven't
> > found any work about continuous system.
> > I would like to develop a generic continous system simulator, and so
> > would be eager to join any open source effort on the subject.
> >
> > For instance, it would be useful for modelling an airplane with all
> > the dynamics (flight simulator).
> >
> > Python is my language of choice because of the keyword 'generic'.
> > Being an object oriented dynamic language, it's perfect for such a
> > task. Unfortunately I'm a novice when it comes to object oriented
> > design and development, so I would prefer to start from something
> > already existent instead of starting from scratch.
> >
> > If you had any idea on the subject, I would be really glad to
> > discuss it with you.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > P.S. : for email, replace nowhere by yahoo
>