Use this tag for questions about advanced computing to model, simulate, understand, or solve engineering, biological, physical, social, and humanities problems.
Computational science is a multidisciplinary field that uses advanced computing to model, simulate, understand, or solve engineering, biological, physical, social, and humanities problems.
Computational science encompasses the areas of—
- numerical and non-numerical algorithms,
- computer and information science (used to develop and optimize advanced system hardware, software, networking, and data management to solve computationally demanding problems), and
- computing infrastructure.
Computational science is to be contrasted with laboratory experiment and theory, the traditional methods of science and engineering. With computational science, scientists and engineers develop computer programs that model systems being studied and run those programs with various sets of input parameters. In some cases, those models require massive amounts of calculations and are often executed on supercomputers or distributed computing platforms.
