There has been a small revolution in data acquisition systems for scientific use in recent years. It was not so long ago that hardware and processing power were expensive. and software nonexistent. Every program had to be written from scratch in a low-level language and, if you did not want your program to.take all night to run, it usually included large chunks of assembler code as well.
Due to the enormous progress in computer technology and numerical methods that have been achieved in recent years, the use of numerical simulation methods in industry gains more and more importance. In particular, this applies to all engineering disciplines. Numerical computations in many cases offer a cost effective and, therefore, very attractive possibility for the investigation and optimization of products and processes.
