EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Discrete Event Simulation, Fluid Mechanics

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Parke Godfrey

Document Summary

Simulation: a model of a complex system and the experimental manipulation of the model to observe the results (dynamic, interactive and complicated are the best) Model: an abstraction of a real system (represents objects within the system and the rules that govern the interactions of the objects. Continuous simulation: treats time as continuous and expresses changes in terms of a set of differential equations that reflect the relationships among the set of characteristics. (ex. Meteorologists models are based on thermodynamics and time- dependent/partial differential equations of fluid mechanics. Entity: the representation of some object in the real system that must be explicitly defined. Attribute: some characteristic of a particular entity. Queuing system: a discrete-event model that uses random numbers to represent the arrival and duration of events. The system is made up of servers and queues of objects to be served.