810:025 Computational Modeling and Simulation
Project Ideas
- The Introduction to Computational Science textbook by Angela and George Shiftlet Table of Contents has a list of Modules such as the following 19.:
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Modeling Falling and Skydiving; Modeling Bungee Jumping; Up, Up, and Away - Rocket Motion;; Competition; Spread of SARS; Enzyme Kinetics;
- Predator-Prey Model; Modeling Malaria; Turnover and Turmoil-Blood Cell Populations; Deep Trouble-Ideal Gas Laws and Scuba Diving;
- What Goes Around Comes Around-The Carbon Cycle; A Heated Debate-Global Warming;
- Cardiovascular System-A Pressure-Filled Model; Fueling Our Cells-Carbohydrate Metabolism; Pit Vipers-Hot Bodies, Dead Meat;
- HIV-The Enemy Within; Predator-Prey-"Catch Me If You Can";
- Clouds-Bringing It All Together; Fish Schooling-Hanging Together, not Separately.
- Shiftlet and Shitlet - Spreading of Fire project ideas.
- Shodor foundation modeling of Forest Fires activities and modeling ideas beyond the model we used in class and graphed after doing 10 runs for various probabilities..
- Dance links and ideas connecting simulation and music/dance/choreography.
- Predator-Prey tutorial based on NetLOGO agent based modeling. Canadian Lynx and Snowshoe Hare.
- NetLOGO and model Word Of Mouth in Marketing - applies to rumors, gossip, to becoming a hit on YouTube, etc. Talk of the
Network: A Complex Systems Look at the Underlying Process of
Word-of-Mouth.
- The NetLOGO Models Library has an extensive collection of models to choose from.
- Modeling the Environment by Andrew Ford. Choose a chapter from this textbook and write your paper and/or develop a VenSIM model of the model that chapter presents.
- Emerging order and LOGO procedures to model it. Spirals and Branching.
- Turtles,
Termites, and Traffic Jams - Explorations in
Massively
Parallel Microworlds by Mitchel Resnick - see and use the Google
Preview.
19 windows available before chapter two begins - Using GOOGLE PREVIEW
Foreword by Seymour Papert in above URL.
Preface
Chapter 1 - Foundations
5 windows available for chapter 2 - Constructions
12 windows available for chapter 3 - Explorations
1 window for the back cover of the book