VisualPDE

We've made some new changes to VisualPDE.com that we hope you'll like. Check out the simulation below of a 5-component "rock paper scissors lizard Spock" model, and see the news post about the changes here: visualpde.com/news/2026-09...

@visualpde.com Is such an awesome website. Explaining geometric Brownian motion in a lecture tomorrow, and this tool here will help me illustrate the corresponding forward Kolmogorov equation: visualpde.com/sim?mini=JOD...

Vortex shedding! You can run the simulation on the right in a web browser with @visualpde.com from this link: visualpde.com/fluids/navie...

Great fun doing an @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social Masterclass for local Year 9 students this morning! Featuring The Puzzle, a human cellular automaton, some nice fractals, and a bit of @visualpde.com

Made a GitHub for my @visualpde.com programs: github.com/mathewbarlow... Click link to run program interactively in a web browser. Click 'f(x)' to see equations. Programs include: shear instability, Fujiwhara effect, geostrophic adjustment, 2D convection, and Stommel's gyre model so far. 1/6

Some festive vortices to spin you into the new year! visualpde.com/fluids/vorti...

Working on an interactive browser-based version of Stommel's model of the ocean gyres and western boundary currents, using @visualpde.com Current version: visualpde.com/sim/?mini=DJ... 1/4

We're working on some exciting new features for VisualPDE, but we want to hear from you! Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. It’s a super short survey (promise)! 👇Fill it out here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Want to put more of *you* into your mathematical modelling? Soon you'll be able to do this through your webcam and VisualPDE! More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.

Coming soon: a modern take on an old paper by William Newman and Carl Sagan postulating a simple wave-like model of interstellar travel and colonization (link below). Now with inter-galactic heterogeneity, stochasticity, and more! ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

Enjoyed chatting with Plus Magazine about @visualpde.com and broader 'interactive approaches to communicating science' with @bjwalker.bsky.social r.bsky.social and @pecnut.bsky.social t.bsky.social! Check out the podcast (and some virus transmission dynamics) below. plus.maths.org/content/adve...

Check out visualpde.com/explore#fluids for all of our our new interactive #fluiddynamics simulations! 🌊 More cool stuff coming soon. 😊