History
The first computer experiments were probably conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory to study the behaviour of nuclear weapons. Since then, the use of computer models has branched out into large parts of the physical and environmental sciences (where they are sometimes referred to as process models), and in medicine. Because computer experiments have developed in such a wide range of applications there is little standardisation of the terminology.
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