Introduction
to the Dynamic Modelling of
Thermo-Fluid
Systems using Modelica
F. Casella
Dipartimento di
Elettronica e Informazione,
Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di
Torino, March 3, 2011
Topics:
• Introduction to Equation-Based,
Object-Oriented modelling - the Modelica
language
• Properties of Differential-Algebraic
Equations systems (DAE)
• Symbolic manipulation of DAEs
obtained from Modelica models
• Initialization of thermo-fluid models
• The Modelica.Media
and ExternalMedia
libraries for fluid property computations
• The Modelica.Fluid
library for thermo-fluid system modelling
• The
ThermoPower
library for power plant modelling