Modern Software Tools for Scientific Computing

Looking back at the years that have passed since the realization of the very first electronic, multi-purpose computers, one observes a tremendous growth in hardware and software performance. Today, researchers and engi neers have access to computing power and software that can solve numerical problems which are not fully understood in terms of existing mathemati cal theory. Thus, computational sciences must in many respects be viewed as experimental disciplines. As a consequence, there is a demand for high quality, flexible software that allows, and even encourages, experimentation with alternative numerical strategies and mathematical models. Extensibil ity is then a key issue; the software must provide an efficient environment for incorporation of new methods and models that will be required in fu ture problem scenarios. The development of such kind of flexible software is a challenging and expensive task. One way to achieve these goals is to in vest much work in the design and implementation of generic software tools which can be used in a wide range of application fields. In order to provide a forum where researchers could present and discuss their contributions to the described development, an International Work shop on Modern Software Tools for Scientific Computing was arranged in Oslo, Norway, September 16-18, 1996. This workshop, informally referred to as Sci Tools '96, was a collaboration between SINTEF Applied Mathe matics and the Departments of Informatics and Mathematics at the Uni versity of Oslo.

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Autorentext
Prof. H. Petter Langtangen is the director of Center for Biomedical Computing, a Norwegian Center of Excellence at Simula Research Laboratory, and a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo. His research concerns numerical methods and software tools for continuum mechanical problems. Langtangen has been an active developer of open source and commercial software systems for computational sciences. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and serves on the editorial board of five leading international journals.

Inhalt
I. Computational Differential Equations.- 1 The SCIRun Computational Steering Software System.- 2 Object-Oriented Solvers for Initial Value Problems.- 3 SPRINT2D Software for Convection Dominated PDEs.- 4 Electrochemical Modelling and Software Genericity.- 5 An Object-Oriented Adaptive Finite Element Code: Design Issues and Applications in Hyperthermia Treatment Planning.- 6 On the Efficient Implementation of Multilevel Adaptive Methods.- 7 Finite Element Kernel with Metaobject Protocol.- 8 Efficient Management of Parallelism in Object-Oriented Numerical Software Libraries.- 9 Object-Oriented Construction of Parallel PDE Solvers.- 10 Modern Software Techniques in Computational Finance.- 11 Increasing the Efficiency and Reliability of Software Development for Systems of PDEs.- II. Computational Geometry.- 12 Object Oriented Surface Design.- 13 Object-Oriented Scattered Data Modelling with Siscat.- III. Software Development.- 14 Is the Quality of Numerical Subroutine Code Improving?.- 15 Object-Oriented Redesign of a Real-World Fortran 77 Solver.- 16 Automating the Debugging of Large Numerical Codes.- 17 The TAMPR Program Transformation System: Simplifying the Development of Numerical Software.- List of Contributors.