Computer Models and Simulations in Scientific Practice

Layers of Models in Computer Simulations

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Scientific Discovery Learning with Computer Simulations of Conceptual Domains

Scientific discovery learning is a highly self-directed and constructivistic form of learning. A computer simulation is a type of computer-based environment that is very suited for discovery learning, the main task of the learner being to infer, through experimentation, characteristics of the model underlying the simulation. In this article we give a review of the observed effectiveness and eff...

Computer Simulations of Statistical Models and Dynamic Complex Systems

This article is an expanded version of the notes used by the authors in the course taught in the 2004 edition of the Brazilian School of Statistical Mechanics (EBME), held in February of 2004 at the São Carlos campus of the State University of São Paulo (USP). The various sections are mostly independent of each other, and can be read in any order. Different styles and notations, independently a...

Scientific Method in Practice

Activity Detection in Scientific Simulations

Today's state of the art simulations generate high-resolution data at an ever-increasing rate. Such simulations produce data with billions of mesh points (or voxels) for each timestep and thousands of such timesteps with multiple variables. Time-varying data can easily reach peta-and exa-byte scale. Visualizing these massive data sets is still an ongoing problem. Even after visualizing this dat...