Building energy and control system modeling and simulation using Modelica

This paper introduces the Modelica Buildings library which has been developed for the advanced simulation of building energy and control systems. Modelica offers benefits compared to conventional approaches for integrating models from different domains, and for simulating systems with largely varying time responses such as building energy systems and control algorithms. This paper also introduces an example of a single-zone HVAC system model which is built using Modelica Buildings library in Dymola.