Playing with VisualPDE

<p>What is as hypnotising as a beautiful goldfish circling its bowl, but can help you understand the way a virus can spread? The answer is one of the beautiful interactive simulations produced by <a href='https://visualpde.com/'>VisualPDE </a>!</p> <p>In this podcast we talk to <a href='https://benjaminwalker.info/'>Benjamin Walker</a> from University College London, and to<a href='https://adamtownsend.com/'> Adam Townsend</a> and <a href='https://www.andrewkrause.org/'>Andrew Krause</a> from Durham University, who together created this online solver of <a href='https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-minute-differential-equations'>partial differential equations</a>.  Such equations describe how quantities change over space and time and therefore used throughout science to describe processes that play out in the real world — from the transmission of airborne viruses to the flow of water during a flood. Ben, Andrew and Adam tell us about their motivation for building VisualPDE and what the...