Development of a software package for computer simulations: The use of a sorted event list for reduction of calculation times

✍ Scribed by C.T.A. Evelo; P.E.E.M. van Daele

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 732 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4825
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4825(93)90081-b

✦ Synopsis

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new program for continuous simulation is described. The program is block oriented. simulating the function of an analogue computer. C structures containing pointers to the calculation of their input functions were used for the individual blocks. The actual calculation order was determined from a sorted event list. After calculation events were inserted at the appropriate place in this list again. This procedure allowed for a variable and independent stepsize for the main blocks and for the introduction of discrete events. With typical applications a speed increase of about 500% was attained.