Simulation As A Tool For Understanding Linearization Of Nonlinear Models.

Simulation of continuous systems is an important aspect of the undergraduate curriculum in Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida. A special purpose simulation program TUTSIM (Twente University of Technology SIMulation) is designed to aid in the understanding of linear and nonlinear system dynamic response. It is well suited as an introductory language for simulation because of its ease of use and fairly extensive library of \u27systems\u27 type blocks. A TUTSIM block diagram, which is required for simulation, is essentially an analog computer simulation diagram without the inherent scaling problems. It is especially easy to simulate control systems which already exist in block diagram form with known transfer functions. 2 Refs