Modular, Extensible Program Simulates Dynamics of Systems

The Multiple Object Orbital Dynamics Simulation (MOODS) computer program is a general, extensible, easily modifiable, and reusable software system for use in simulating the dynamics of such diverse engineering systems as aircraft, missiles, automobiles, industrial process-control systems, or other systems wherein time-dependent physical processes (e.g., unsteady chemical reactions) occur. MOODS contains a generic and reusable kernel, plus a large base of high-quality reusable primitives, utility subprograms, and models that assist it in rapidly prototyping extensions of itself and of other system-analysis application programs.