Theory and Modelling Resources Cookbook

The current version of the Theory and Modelling Resources Cookbook is SC/13.2-5, dated 2003 March 10.

Unfortunately, the cookbook is no longer actively maintained, since the demise of Starlink in 2005. The contents shouldn't become rapidly false, however (it still includes extensive discussion of Fortran, for heavens' sake!), so it should still be useful. If you have any comments, please get in touch with me, and I should be able to include them in the respository version at least.

Any updates to the cookbook will appear here.

Versions:

The Starlink/RAL versions

...have disappeared.

SC/13.2-5: Theory and Modelling Resources Cookbook

Local version, to read online

Versions and supporting materials

HTML, PDF, examples tarball.

A number of people have contributed to this document, either with helpful general remarks or corrections or amplifications on points of detail. Where their contribution was precisely localisable -- in particular where I have merely sub-edited their comments into place -- they are also acknowledged at the appropriate specific points in the text.

• SG: Sergio Gelato (@Durham.ac.uk) added remarks about optimizing C, and compiler switches.
• SJ: Simon Jeffery (@star.arm.ac.uk) added pointers to model atmosphere codes.
• JL: Jon Lockley (@astro.soton.ac.uk)
• AS: Anne Sansom (@uclan.ac.uk).
• BS: Barry Smalley (@astro.keele.ac.uk). Pointers to model atmospheres.
• MBT: Mark Taylor (@ast.cam.ac.uk) made a number of points about my coverage of Fortran, and several insightful remarks about numerical programming.
• RFWS: Rodney Warren-Smith made many comments on an early draft of the text, which made it much better than it otherwise might have been.
• RW: Robin Williams (@astro.cf.ac.uk) general comments, and information about Alpha switches.