On the role of mathematical abstractions for scientific computing

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2001, Pages 145-157

  Åhlander, Krister ^a   Haveraaen, Magne ^a   Munthe Kaas, Hans Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Coordinate free numerics; Object oriented modeling; PDE simulation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REUSABILITY;

ABSTRACTION; COORDINATE-FREE; MATHEMATICAL ABSTRACTION; NUMERICAL DISCRETIZATION; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; PDE SIMULATION; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84901949617     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35407-1_9     Document Type: Article

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