Conference article

Restarting algorithms for simulation problems with discontinuities

Fatemeh Mohammadi
Numerical Analysis, Center of Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Carmen Arévalo
Numerical Analysis, Center of Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Claus Führer
Numerical Analysis, Center of Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Download articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp14096819

Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Modelica Conference; March 10-12; 2014; Lund; Sweden

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 96:85, p. 819-826

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Published: 2014-03-10

ISBN: 978-91-7519-380-9

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

Abstract

Modelica has in its language support for describing discontinuities; so-called events. Modern integrating environments; like Assimulo; provide elaborated event detection and event handling methods. In addition; the overall performance of a simulation of models with discontinuities (hybrid models) depends strongly on methods for restarting integration after event detection. The presented paper reviews two restarting methods; based oRunge--Kutta starters for multistep methods; and presents first experiments on a hybrid system described in Modelica and simulated by JModelica.org/PyFMI and Assimulo.

Keywords

Events; discontinuities; hybrid systems; multistep method; Runge–Kutta method; simulation restart

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