The root of this work is a so called ''Studienarbeit'' (a studentical work running over a full semester, about 500 hours workload) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Spellucci, Department of Mathematics, Technical university at Darmstadt. Work was done by the student Stephan Kablitz. (1996)
At that time only three applications had been implemented, of which two are running up today. This proved the technical feasibility of our idea to enable students without much or even without any programming skills to work with sound numerical schemes, firstly to support the lecture on ''numerical methods for engineers''. Hence afterwards and up to today the system has been enhanced and (hopefully) improved.
In addition to the numerical mathematics part NumaW3 a collection of optimization codes has been added, OptiW3
These both are now available under a common framework.
Your ideas how to expand or to improve the system are welcome. Use email for this .NUMAWWW is designed such that :
1. All parts of it can be used essentially without programming skills
2. Only software which is freely available for teaching or academic research is used
3. The system can be run on any UNIX/LINUX installation with essentially no changes.
4. The system provides world wide access
The computational codes used here are partly original work of P. Spellucci, others come from NETLIB, ELIB (of the ZIB Berlin) and others. The I/O and graphics for all codes is original work of P. Spellucci.
In the long time run of the implementation several people contributed, especially regarding the technical background, to name my former PhD students Rolf Felkel and Alexandra Witzel, and the students Stefan Kostopoulos and Stefan Kablitz, last not least the departments LINUX manager Dr. Holger Grothe. Your contact regarding NUMAWWW presently is either via the contact form or email to s p e ll u c ci (at) mathematik dot tu-darmstadt dot de
(remove the blanks, replace the (at) and the dot)
23.01.2014