Continuous system simulation in Python

[hrh1818]

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