User Guide¶
This user guide provides instructions for how to use the free open-source Modelica Buildings library. The user guide covers how to
- get started,
- follow best practices when createing models and running simulations,
- fix common problems in translating or simulating models,
- automate pre- and post-processing of model inputs and outputs,
- develop and contribute new models to the library, and
- get help.
The following information can be found in the Modelica files rather than in this documentation:
- The physical assumptions and the equations that the models are based on.
- Advice as to which models may be used if multiple models may be available for similar equipment or physical phenomena.
Contents¶
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Best Practice
- 2.1. Organization of packages
- 2.2. Building large system models
- 2.3. Propagating parameters and media packages
- 2.4. Thermo-fluid systems
- 2.5. Start values of iteration variables
- 2.6. Avoiding events
- 2.7. Controls
- 2.8. Example for how to debug and correct slow simulations due to events
- 2.9. Numerical solvers
- 3. Work-Arounds
- 4. Pre- and Post-Processing
- 5. Development
- 6. Help
- 7. Glossary
- 8. Acknowledgments
- 9. Disclaimers
- 10. Copyright and License