Title: A new user interface for ADiMat: toward accurate and efficient derivatives of MATLAB programmes with ease of use

Authors: Johannes Willkomm; Christian H. Bischof; H. Martin Bücker

Addresses: Scientific Computing Group, TU Darmstadt, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany ' Scientific Computing Group, TU Darmstadt, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany ' Institute for Scientific Computing, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany

Abstract: Various techniques in computational science and engineering benefit from accurate and efficient derivative computation. ADiMat is a software tool that transforms a numerical program written in MATLAB into another MATLAB programme for the computation of derivatives that are free from truncation error. We introduce a new and easy-to-use interface for ADiMat and present case studies from geophysics and fluid mechanics to quantify the performance of the code generated by ADiMat.

Keywords: automatic differentiation; user interface design; ADiMat; ease of use; MATLAB derivatives; Octave; geophysics; fluid mechanics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2014.064526

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2014 Vol.9 No.5/6, pp.408 - 415

Received: 17 Dec 2011
Accepted: 06 Jul 2012
Published online: 22 Sep 2014 *

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