Computer-Assisted Documentation in a Problem Solving Environment (PSE) for Partial Differential Equation Based Problems

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In this paper, we discuss and present a newly-developed computer-assisted documentation module in a distributed problem solving environment (PSE) for partial differential equation (PDE) based problems. We have proposed a PSE for PDE-based problems in Trans. JSCES No.20010018, (2001), in order to extend the conventional PSE concept. The distributed PSE system inputs a problem information including PDEs, the initial and boundary conditions and a discretization and computation scheme, and outputs a program flow and also a C-language source code for the problem. The PSE contains all the information of the problem itself, PDEs, discretization scheme, mesh information, equation manipulation results, designed program structure, variable and constant definitions and program itself. Therefore it is possible to construct a documentation module for the designed and generated program in the PSE, and the generated document describes the important information for users to understand the problem itself and the program. This new idea explores the capability of PSEs and can be realized within the framework of the PSE.