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2023 10 09 Tutorial Aachen

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Modelica IBPSA Tutorial

Date: October 9, 2023

Location: Room Oxygen

Registration via conference registration system. This meeting is in-person only.

Overview

This workshop teaches fundamentals for HVAC and control modeling using the Modelica IBPSA Library – the core of the Modelica AixLib, Buildings, BuildingSystems and IDEAS Libraries – and OpenModelica’s OMEdit.

The workshop will give an introduction to OMEdit and present best practices for modeling HVAC and control systems with Modelica for new users. Participants will conduct hands-on exercises using OMEdit and the Modelica IBPSA Library. The workshop will close with an overview of the four libraries that use the Modelica IBPSA Library as their core, i.e., the AixLib, Buildings, BuildingSystems and IDEAS Libraries.

Prerequisites


Slides are available at https://github.com/ibpsa/modelica-working-group/tree/main/meetings/2023-10-09-tutorial-aachen


Agenda

1:30 Fundamentals of modeling thermofluid flow systems (Michael Wetter)

1:45 Fundamentals of OMEdit (Francesco Casella)

2:00 Hands on exercise: Modeling thermofluid flow system

  • Francesco Casella (Open Source Modelica Consortium and Politecnico di Milano)
  • Dre Helms (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Jelger Jansen (KU Leuven)
  • Christoph Nytsch-Geusen (UdK Berlin)
  • Michael Wetter (Berkeley Lab)

2:30 Coffee break

3:00 Hands on exercise: Modeling thermofluid flow system

  • Francesco Casella (Open Source Modelica Consortium and Politecnico di Milano)
  • Dre Helms (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Jelger Jansen (KU Leuven)
  • Christoph Nytsch-Geusen (UdK Berlin)
  • Michael Wetter (Berkeley Lab)

4:30 Short overview of the libraries that use IBPSA as their core library (5 min each)

  • AixLib (Laura Maier, RTWH Aachen)
  • BuildingSystems (Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, UdK Berlin)
  • Buildings (Michael Wetter, Berkeley Lab)
  • IDEAS (Jelger Jansen, KU Leuven)

4:50 Concluding remarks

4:30 Coffee break, followed by vendor presentations