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A '''computer simulation''' is a [[simulation (nonfiction)]], run on a | [[File:Karman_Vortex_animation.gif|frame|Karman vortex.]]A '''computer simulation''' is a [[simulation (nonfiction)|simulation]], run on a computer or a network of computers, to reproduce behavior of a system. | ||
The simulation uses an abstract model (a computer model), or a computational model. | |||
Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modeling of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), astrophysics, climatology, chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, social science, and engineering. | |||
The simulation can be used to explore and gain new insights into new technology and to estimate the performance of systems too complex for analytical solutions. | |||
The scale of events being simulated by computer simulations has far exceeded anything possible (or perhaps even imaginable) using traditional paper-and-pencil mathematical modeling. | |||
== Fiction cross-reference == | |||
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File:Hypercube.svg|link=The Boxes|[[The Boxes]] are a kind of free-willed computer simulation. | |||
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The | * [[The Boxes]] - related to computer simulations. | ||
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* [[Algorithm (nonfiction)]] | * [[Algorithm (nonfiction)]] | ||
* [[Computational physics (nonfiction)]] | * [[Computational physics (nonfiction)]] | ||
* [[Simulation (nonfiction)]] | * [[Simulation (nonfiction)]] | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation Computer simulation] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation Computer simulation] @ Wikipedia | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:27, 10 June 2016
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A computer simulation is a simulation, run on a computer or a network of computers, to reproduce behavior of a system.
The simulation uses an abstract model (a computer model), or a computational model.
Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modeling of many natural systems in physics (computational physics), astrophysics, climatology, chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, social science, and engineering.
The simulation can be used to explore and gain new insights into new technology and to estimate the performance of systems too complex for analytical solutions.
The scale of events being simulated by computer simulations has far exceeded anything possible (or perhaps even imaginable) using traditional paper-and-pencil mathematical modeling.
Fiction cross-reference
The Boxes are a kind of free-willed computer simulation.
- The Boxes - related to computer simulations.
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Computer simulation @ Wikipedia