Supplementary files run on UNIX and Windows 95/98/NT

Supplementary files run on UNIX and Windows 95/98/NT

Scilab is a powerful open computing environment designed for engineering and scientific applications. Engineering and Scientific Computing with Scilab provides a comprehensive overview of Scilab's utilization including integrated graphics, incorporation of user-provided functions, and a tour of its numerous and powerful applications toolboxes.

Familiarize yourself with Scilab using this concise, practical tutorial that is focused on writing code to learn concepts. Starting from the basics, this book covers array-based computing, plotting, and working with files in Scilab. Introduction to Scilab is useful for industry engineers, researchers, and students who are looking for open-source solutions for numerical computation. In this book you will learn by doing, avoiding technical jargon, which makes the concepts easy to learn. First you’ll see how to run basic calculations, absorbing technical complexities incrementally as you progress toward advanced topics. Throughout, the language is kept simple to ensure that readers at all levels can grasp the concepts. After reading this book, you will come away with sample code that can be re-purposed and applied to your own projects using Scilab. What You'll Learn Apply sample code to your engineering or science problems Work with Scilab arrays, functions, and loops Use Scilab’s plotting functions for data visualization Solve numerical computing and computational engineering problems with Scilab Who This Book Is For Engineers, scientists, researchers, and students who are new to Scilab. Some prior programming experience would be helpful but not required.

Scilab is open source equivalent for basic MATLAB package. Its usage in scientific and numerical computation is gaining popularity day by day. The biggest advantage of using Scilab over another free software Octave for the purpose is that XCOS(Scilab) rivals Simulink (MATLAB) capabilities whereas Octave does not have any such graphical programming capabilities. Present book gives introduction to Scilab for a new-user. Starting from very basic, it goes on to explain array based computing, plotting and working with files. The book is useful for students, researchers and students who are looking for a open source software for numerical computation. Present book is specially written in concise format so that new user can learn quickly in learn-by-doing fashion. CHAPTERS: 1-Introduction,2-Working with Arrays,3-Plotting,4-Data through file reading and writing, 5-Functions and loops, 6- Numerical computing formalism

Supplementary files run on UNIX and Windows 95/98/NT