From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JN0xF-00086m-TW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:13:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE331E00A8; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jfindlay.us (unknown [72.8.99.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2026E00A8 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by jfindlay.us (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2843464092; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:13:52 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:13:52 -0700 From: Justin Findlay To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-science] RFC: modeling software Message-ID: <20080207071352.GA20488@archimedes.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 4326ce84-7faa-493d-a7e0-739f41200c08 X-Archives-Hash: c62bb9b6e6de65905f9e6faf5a4613ea I'm doing some computational astrophysics research, specifically modeling the effect of star novas on planetary motion and my problem is that I don't know the best way to do this. The nature of this research consists of my extending a model already developed by my advisor, and the problem is that I want to translate this model into a simulation and I don't know what software to use. My advisor has given me full discretion in using whatever tools I need, so I thought I'd ask here since I don't know where else to ask. Since he hasn't stipulated the use of any software to model the research I want to take this opportunity to get experience with some of the FLOSS projects out there. What software do you think would be most useful for this project? Justin -- gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org mailing list