c++ toolkit for engineers and scientists

ISBN-13: 9780387987972 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 388 str.

James T. Smith; J. T. Smith

Opis

This book describes the design, construction, and use of a numerical analysis software toolkit. It's written in C+ +, Version 2. 0, and makes essential use of that language's Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) features. Its development environment is the Borland International, Inc., Borland C++ compiler, Version 5. 02, for IBM-compatible personal computers. However, the book describes few features specific to that product. The toolkit and its description and background discussions cover the most fundamental aspects of numerical analysis. At the core of most scientific or engineering application programs are some of the concepts and techniques presented here. The most basic include details of computation with floating-point real and complex numbers; mathematical functions in the C+ + Library; and a general OOP framework for vector, polynomial, and matrix algebra. On this foundation routines are constructed for solving nonlinear equations, linear and nonlinear systems of equations, and eigenvalue problems. The book is heavily weighted toward software development. What's new here is the emphasis on software tools and on OOP techniques for handling vectors, polynomials, and matrices. Rather than describing programs implementing specific numerical techniques to solve specific applica tion problems, the book constructs reusable tools with which you can implement many techniques for solving broad classes of problems. Examples are included to demonstrate their use. The tools are organized into layers. The deepest is formed by the C+ + library functions for computing with real and complex numbers."

Spis treści

1 Introduction.- 2 Software Organization.- 3 Computing with Scalars.- 4 Solving Scalar Equations.- 5 Vector Classes.- 6 Polynomial Classes.- 7 Matrix Classes.- 8 Matrix Computations.- 9 Iterative Solution of Systems of Equations.- Appendix: Selected Source Code.- A.1 Vector and Matrix Display Output Functions.- A.2 Msp Header Files.- A.3 Example Mathematical Function with Intermediate Output.- A.4 Optional and Accompanying Diskettes.

O autorze

The C++ Toolkit for Engineers and Scientists covers the fundamental aspects of numerical analysis with a balanced approach between object- oriented programming and quick and dirty number crunching. As a practical reference it will greatly benefit applications developers, engineers, and scientists who need to develop clean, efficient C++ programs in minimal time.