What is Computer model?
{{No sources|date=December 2024}} [[Image:Columbia Supercomputer - NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A [[NASA]] supercomputer. Computers like these are often used to run the most complicated computer models]] A computer-based predictive '''model''' is a [[computer]] program that is designed to [[simulation|simulate]] what might or what did happen in a situation. They are used in many ways including in [[astronomy]], [[economics]] and [[science]]s such as [[physics]] and [[biology]]. Computer models are used in fields such as [[earthquake performance simulation]] and making [[building model|models of buildings]]. Well known areas which use computer models: * Models of the [[atmosphere]] for [[weather forecast]]s and to predict [[climate change]] * [[Aerodynamics]] via [[fluid dynamics]] simulation * [[:en:Agent-based_model|Agent-based modelling]] is used to simulate [[social interaction]]s in [[artificial Intelligence]] Computer modelling often uses [[numerical analysis]] to [[approximation|approximate]] the real solution of the problem. [[Simulation]] techniques are then used to get values. [[Numerical weather prediction]]s are too inaccurate to give a good local prediction of the weather, so other methods are used to adjust them. ==References== {{reflist}} {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Computing]] [[Category:Modeling (science)]] [[Category:Research]]