It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including population and resource studies[1][2] and urban planning.
[3][4] DYNAMO was initially developed under the direction of Jay Wright Forrester in the late 1950s, by Dr. Phyllis Fox,[5][6] Alexander L. Pugh III, Grace Duren,[7] and others[8] at the M.I.T.
[9] DYNAMO was used for the system dynamics simulations of global resource depletion reported in the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth,[1] but has since fallen into disuse.
In 1958, Forrester unwittingly instigated DYNAMO's development when he asked an MIT staff programmer to compute needed solutions to some equations, for a Harvard Business Review paper he was writing about industrial dynamics.
[20] On the other hand, it has also been criticized as weak precisely where mathematical sophistication should be required[2][21] and for relying only on Euler integration.