From: Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
Date: 2002-03-22T07:26:42+09:00
Subject: Re: disease model

Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >I'm glad to see other folks using Ruby for simulation. I'm using it for
> >hybrid systems simulations--hybrid systems are finite state machines
> >with ODE's attached to each state--of vehicle and controllers.
> 
> What's an ODE?

Pure speculation: ODE = Ordinary Differential Equation

> >Any other simulation folks out there?

I guess I would qualify: I use Ruby for simulating fluid flow
with PDE's. (PDE = Partial Differential Equations)

-- 
Bil Kleb
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia, USA