Conference article

Variability and Type Calculation for Equation of Modelica model

Junjie Tang
National CAD Center, China

Jianwan Ding
National CAD Center, China

Liping Chen
National CAD Center, China

Xiong Gong
National CAD Center, China

Download articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp11063837

Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Modelica Conference; March 20th-22nd; Technical Univeristy; Dresden; Germany

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 63:95, p. 837-842

Show more +

Published: 2011-06-30

ISBN: 978-91-7393-096-3

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Differential algebraic equations (DAEs); translated from Modelica model; is usually represented by bipartite graph. One of basic premises of creating bipartite graph is to determine types of variables and equations. Type calculation of Modelica equation has been researched and a serial of rules for variability and type calculation has been concluded in this paper.

Equation type is the type of variable that equation can solve. Equation type is calculated in symbolic by both variability and basic type of its sub-expressions. Generally; type calculation is a bottom-up way as expression is represented in form of tree. But; there are kinds of particular expressions; such as integer(); noEvent(); multi-output function call expression; etc; which may cause type and variability incompatible problem. The issue is discussed in the paper; and several rules for variability and type calculation are present. These rules will helps to debug out obscure errors; and several typical examples are present to show how the rules work.

Keywords

Equation type; equation variability; compatibility of variability and type; model debug

References

[1]. Peter Bunus; Peter Fritzson. Methods for Structural Analysis and Debugging of Modelica Models. Proceedings of the 2nd International Modelica Conference; 2002; 10: 157~165

[2]. Ding Jianwan. Research on Methods for Consistency Analysis and Reduction of Declarative Simulation Models: [PhD thesis]. China: Huazhong University of Science & Technology; 2006

[3]. David Broman. Types in the Modelica Language. Proceedings of the 5th International Modelica Conference; 2006; 9:303~315

[4]. Modelica Language Specification V3.2. https://www.modelica.org/.

[5]. Peter Fritzson. Principles of Object-Oriented Modeling and Simulation with Modelica 2.1. Wiley-IEEE Press; New York; USA; 2004

[6]. Futong Lv. Numerical Computing Methods; chapter 5. Tsinghua University Press; 2008.

Citations in Crossref