Abstract

This chapter focuses on a new translator, FAST, requiring no previous computer experience by the user. FAST has been developed for IMP, an implicit integration package shown to be absolutely stable on stiff equations. IMP utilizes a novel integration algorithm with control options that provide problem specificity, thereby reducing computer time. A vector elimination approach reduces core requirements on real systems of equations with sparse coefficient matrices. FAST has been developed to eliminate the programming effort required by IMP. Models or systems of differential and algebraic equations are read in with minimal instruction coding. Standard forcing functions and an interpolation routine for experimental data are provided, and any FORTRAN programmable function can be used. The FAST translator used with IMP has been shown to be very competitive with existing integration, problem solving, and modeling packages. The chapter presents a description of the translator's operation. The FAST translator was designed to allow a user to obtain a solution to a problem directly from the modeling equations, thus, freeing him from tasks such as dimensioning arrays, setting up loops, and checking convergence or errors, as would be required in FORTRAN.

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