PDEL—a language for partial differential equations

  • Authors:
  • Alfonso F. Cárdenas;Walter J. Karplus

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Los Angeles;Univ. of California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1970

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Abstract

Conventional computer methods available to solve continuous system problems characterized by partial differential equations are very time-consuming and cumbersome. A convenient, easy to learn and to use, high level problem oriented language to solve and study partial differential equation problems has been designed; a practical translator for the language has also been designed, and a working version of it has been constructed for a significant portion of the language. This Partial Differential Equation Language, PDEL, is outlined, and the highlights of the translator are briefly summarized.