Interactive Dynamic-System Simulation

Demonstrating how to use personal computers for modeling and simulation, this practical tutorial discusses how to effectively simulate dynamical systems, such as aerospace vehicles, power plants, chemical processes, control systems, and physiological systems. This edition introduces a new vectorizing compiler for fast vector operations and parameter-influence studies, incorporates a new treatment of the difference equation programs for modeling sampled-data control systems with digital controllers, and presents improved versions of several classical simulation programs to illustrate useful programming tricks. An accompanying CD-ROM includes a complete, industrial-strength simulation program package.