Simulation as an interdisciplinary, integrated development tool was established in order to better control the complexity of modern products and projects. This involves the closed modeling of physical and logical features of products to be developed. The simulation serves to examine and optimize the product model in terms of the required features. This ultimately creates better products with considerably shorter development times and with fewer real prototypes and testing outlay.
Dymola and Modelica are industry standards for the holistic model-based simulation of physical systems of all disciplines such as mechanics, electrical engineering and electronics, thermodynamics, hydraulics, pneumatics, control engineering and process technology.
Modelica
The object-oriented modeling language Modelica offers an open standard, which enables the simple and correct description of complex physical systems of all engineering disciplines on the basis of mathematical equations. Dymola is currently the highest performing and most flexible modeling and simulation environment for Modelica. It offers the user a homogenous tool for the efficient validation and optimization of complex systems.
Further information on Modelica, the Modelica Association, events and libraries can be found at www.modelica.org.