Reactive programming of simulations in physics

Frédéric Boussinot (1) , Bernard Monasse (1) , Jean-Ferdy Susini (2)

1 CEMEF - Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux
2 CEDRIC - Centre d'études et de recherche en informatique et communications

We consider the Reactive Programming (RP) approach to simulate physical systems. The choice of RP is motivated by the fact that RP genuinely offers logical parallelism, instantaneously broadcast events, and dynamic creation/destruction of parallel components and events. To illustrate our approach, we consider the implementation of a system of Molecular Dynamics, in the context of Java with the Java3D library for 3D visualization.

Mots clés: Concurrency; parallelism; reactive programming; physics; molecular dynamics

Domaines: Matériaux; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Physique Numérique [physics.comp-ph]

Frédéric Boussinot, Bernard Monasse, Jean-Ferdy Susini. Reactive programming of simulations in physics. International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2015, 26 (12), pp.1550132. ⟨10.1142/S0129183115501326⟩. ⟨hal-01164883⟩