This is a simple AM and FM modulation diagram displayed with a VisSim plot.
A stand-alone Workbench package serves as an integrated development environment for the company’s other products.
If you’ve written code to run on two processors, you don’t have to rewrite it when more processors become available (four-processor computing comes standard). New features include intense statistical analyses, flow-line visualization (helpful for fluid and magnetic analyses), improved image processing for cases where data is only available in photographic formats, a major revamping of the graphical charting choices, and formatting options such as placing equations at an arbitrary angle.įrom an operational point of view, Mathematica 7 is a high-level programming environment that supports flexible built-in distributed computing. Mathematica’s range of capabilities helps users automatically select appropriate algorithms, track numerical precision, visualize data with interactive 3D models, and handle symbolic (e.g., XML or audio) as well as numeric data input and output.
This newest Wolfram development continues, as the company puts it, “a consistent focus on integrating features into ]the software’s] core functionality rather than adding them as disjointed add-ons.” For example, in addition to its ordinary differential equation/partial differential equation functions, the software now handles differentiated algebraic equations. Wolfram Research delivered Version 7 of its comprehensive Mathematica package last year. Here’s a look at several good options and their latest additions that just might solve your own problems with numbers.
But these camps sometimes cross-pollinate and use the same tools. Image courtesy TecplotĪs mentioned in a recent article ( November 2009 DE), numerical software users typically fall into two categories: engineers who gather experimental data and need to process it into a more usable form, and engineers who are solving formula-based problems and need automated assistance with hand calculations. Tecplot 360 CFD visualization software calculates total vorticity magnitude and the trajectory of particles with mass, extracts vortex cores, and generates an image showing the vortical flow around the primary vortex of a delta wing at 40 degrees angle of attack. (Late nights and caffeine were a factor, I’m sure.) If your New Year’s resolution is to get a better handle on data management, from fitting curves to communicating results and creating batch-processing scripts, you’ve come to the right place. A grad student I once knew went around with glazed eyes saying, “Numbers! Numbers!” when he was scrambling to interpret reams of new raw data.