Development of a simulation platform for continuous systems modelling

Author

Thevenard, D. ; Chandrashekar, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Design Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

14-17 Oct 1996

Firstpage

2364

Abstract

A prototype simulation platform for modelling of continuous systems, called PROSIM, is currently under development. PROSIM aims at providing a complete simulation environment enabling the modelling of systems in a very structured and hierarchical way, while at the same time easing the work of the user with the help of graphical tools and symbolic processing. A graphical interface helps defining components, assemble them into systems, run the simulation and display the results. A symbolic processor is used to parse the equations entered by the user, simplify them, and compute a symbolic Jacobian matrix used to solve the equations with a Newton-Raphson procedure. The application of the program to the simulation of a simple water distribution network is shown as an example

Keywords

Jacobian matrices; Newton-Raphson method; digital simulation; graphical user interfaces; software packages; Newton-Raphson procedure; PROSIM; continuous systems modelling; graphical interface; graphical tools; simulation platform; symbolic Jacobian matrix; symbolic processing; symbolic processor; water distribution network; Assembly systems; Continuous time systems; Differential equations; Hafnium; Hysteresis; Logic; Pressure control; Reservoirs; Terminology; Water resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3280-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1996.565543

Filename

565543