Scientific Software Design: The Object-Oriented Way

Author:   Damian Rouson ,  Jim Xia ,  Xiaofeng Xu
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9780521716178


Pages:   442
Publication Date:   01 December 2011
Format:   Paperback
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This book concerns software design. Although many current discussions of scientific programming focus on scalable performance, this book focuses on scalable design. The authors analyze how the structure of a package determines its developmental complexity according to such measures as bug search times and documentation information content. The work presents arguments for why these issues impact solution cost and time more than does scalable performance. The final chapter explores the question of scalable execution and shows how scalable design relates to scalable execution. The book's focus is on program organization, which has received considerable attention in the broader software engineering community, where graphical description standards for modeling software structure and behavior have been developed by computer scientists. These discussions might be enriched by engineers who write scientific codes. This book aims to bring such scientific programmers into discussion with computer scientists. The authors do so by introducing object-oriented software design patterns in the context of scientific simulation.

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Author:   Damian Rouson ,  Jim Xia ,  Xiaofeng Xu
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9780521716178


ISBN 10:   0521716179
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   01 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. The Tao of Scientific OOP: 1. Development costs and complexity; 2. The object-oriented way; 3. Scientific OOP; Part II. SOOP to Nuts and Bolts: 4. Design patterns basics; 5. The object pattern; 6. The abstract calculus pattern; 7. The strategy and surrogate patterns; 8. The puppeteer pattern; 9. Factory patterns; Part III. Gumbo SOOP: 10. Formal constraints; 11. Mixed-language programming; 12. Multiphysics architectures.

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This book makes a good case for the usefulness of design patterns and object-oriented programming for maintainable code, but disregards runtime performance and scienti!c libraries...one of those books that I wish I d read earlier in my programming career. - Ramses van Zon, Computing in Science and Engineering, Jan/Feb 2012


Author Information

Damian Rouson is currently the manager of the Reacting Flow Research department at Sandia National Laboratories. He was formerly Section Head of the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory Division of Combustion Science and Modeling. He was assistant professor of engineering at the City University of New York, and visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland. Damian Rouson received his Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Jim Xia is currently a software designer and tester at the IBM Test Lab in Markham, Ontario, Canada. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Western Ontario in 1997. Dr. Xiaofeng Xu is currently a Software Analyst at General Motors Corp. in Pontiac, Michigan. At this job, he performs airflow and combustion CFD analysis to support base engine designs. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering (2003) from Iowa State University in Ames, IA and is the author or co-author of 39 referred publications.

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