[eric_t]

Interesting. Is the code available somewhere? I looked at your SIGGRAPH paper, and that was very interesting.

Have you seen the FiPy project? It's a full-featured finite volume code in Python, which is very easy to extend (they did struggle with performance in early releases, not sure how the current status is).

I guess that's the area where dynamic or functional languages can be useful, in that they are easier to build generic libraries for, and can give rise to codes with easier extensibility.