Continuous system simulation in Python

[Nicolas Pernetty]

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,

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