180	1996	Krister Ahlander	krister@tdb.uu.se	An Object-oriented Approach to Construct PDE Solvers

		Abstract

An object-oriented analysis and design is presented, for a framework
in which PDE solvers (programs that numerically solves partial
differential equations) may be composed from existing components. The
motivation for this work is that object-oriented technology is more
robust to changes than traditional techniques are. The PDE solving
system has been implemented in a one-dimensional pilot implementation,
which shows that the framework is expressive, flexible and
extendible. Through an interface to an object-oriented database on top
of the classes, it is shown that PDE solvers can be constructed and
changed interactively.