Supporting the Perpetuation and Reproducibility of Numerical Method Publications

The development of new numerical methods is of great importance in computational science. Due to their many appealing properties, Finite Element (FEMs), Finite Volume (FVMs) and Finite Difference (DFMs) methods are of particular interest, with a very large number of journal articles devoted to them. Unfortunately, these methods can be time consuming to implement when one would like to explore certain numerical properties or make comparisons with other methods. In this paper, we propose a new computational environment in which the specification and implementation of such methods introduced in journal articles can be perpetuated and the experimentation with them can be made reproducible and easily compared with related work.