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