Wolfram Mathcore and Japanese nuclear power thermodynamic meltdown modeling
Monday, April 18th, 2011Stephen Wolfram and co have produce math core modeling software and linked this to the Mathematica source. Well blow me down.
I am not in the employ of Mr Wolfram nor his large team of pro-active code writers. But this blog has spent some time over the past year watching Wolfram and his Mathematica data manipulation software which is by far the most interesting thing in code space.
Not even chaos-theory robotics is as much fun.
To generate large-scale modeling requires masses of computing power. Or algorithmic power as Wolfram puts it. As one commentator says upon the launch of Mathcore engineering DB – did anyone model the effect of a tsunami on six power plants on the Japanese coast, close to one of the worlds’ most populous cities, Tokyo?
No such modeling software exists. Well now it apparently does. So many things change so fast - and there’s so much social networking noise that we appear to lose sight of the valid research based in cyber-space. This new system exploits symbolic equations.
Modeling software initially used explicit diagrams – back in the ’60s. Block diagrams became the favoured version of modeling by the 1980′s .
But these were still restrictive – eg they worked like flowcharts and dependent on one component linking to another. That means numerical solutions to the methods. What was required with modeling software was more dynamic code.
The software should not merely mimic existing structures coded into it – but be able to create non-causal diagram methods.
So here came Symbolic Equations.
Beautiful.
The underlying equations are more dynamic, and by using cloud-computing systems, we now can access huge amounts of modeled data. For example, temperature flow in a thermodynamic system.
Like modeling the effect of super-heated uranium rods inside nitrogenous steam located inside a damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima.
