Francesco Casella
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp12076215Published in: Proceedings of the 9th International MODELICA Conference; September 3-5; 2012; Munich; Germany
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 76:21, p. 215-222
Published: 2012-11-19
ISBN: 978-91-7519-826-2
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The object-oriented formulation of steady-state initialization for models of closed thermo-hydraulic systems yields singular problems; due to system-wide structural issues. The paper proposes how to solve this problem in an object-oriented fashion; by means of an additional component that helps to uniquely determine the initial conditions of the system. A method based on the analysis of the null space of the Jacobian of the initialization problem and on suitable annotations is also proposed to provide the end user with meaningful; high-level; context-relevant diagnostic messages; in case the singular problem arises. This diagnostic method can also be applied to other cases; such as closed systems with constant density fluid and electrical circuits lacking a ground connection.
Thermo-hydraulic system modelling; Initialization; User-friendly error diagnostics
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