Simul, A New Continuous Systems Simulation Language For Minicomputers

SIMUL is an interactive equation-oriented language for simulation of continuous-time systems on minicomputers; it has designed for a rmximum case of programming and use, allowing the user to write his equations in standard rmthematical form and to control the simulation runs by simple commands. This paper describes the main features of the language and progroTmling system, and it gives two examples illustrating the use of SIMUL and its capabilities, especially the prograTmling of multiruns simulation studies and the use of indexed variables in case of discretized partial differential equations.