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 1JN8Lc-0003uF-2u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:07:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47C30E0686; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A17E0686 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mbfY1Y0040cQ2SLA70Bx00; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:07:21 +0000 Received: from [67.189.95.250] ([67.189.95.250]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mf7U1Y0075Q77KX8W00000; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:07:30 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=fyo8Q2LtIJ8A:10 a=6rK_dXsuXSlYdxHy5gQA:9 a=DBvOy8FyjIT-_pMg4qZwFHW-ZlkA:4 a=3I_whO4B8K8A:10 Message-ID: <47AB1EAC.3020106@cesmail.net> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:07:24 -0800 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071227) 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 To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] RFC: modeling software References: <20080207071352.GA20488@archimedes.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080207071352.GA20488@archimedes.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bbdaf81b-2dcb-41fb-bd7f-d7ab19cfc0e9 X-Archives-Hash: 247f6e592401b159c255b2ef3bbc9d05 Justin Findlay wrote: > 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 "Modeling" is too vague a word to get a meaningful response. However, I'll assume that, since it's astrophysics, that you're solving some equations. There are two ways to solve equations, numeric and symbolic. You can also mix these approaches, although that's more difficult. So ... can you specify the nature of the model? Is it equation-based? Numerical? Symbolic? Algebraic? Integral? Differential? None of the above? -- gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org mailing list