📅 Agenda

Day 1

09:00-09:30
Social Welcome coffee
09:30-10:00
Intro Overview of the course
  • Short presentation of instructors and participants
  • Software installation and practical info
10:00-10:15
Free Break
10:15-11:45
Lecture Session 1 / Introduction to system modeling
  • Systems, models and simulation
  • Building performance simulation tools
  • A first overview of Modelica
11:45-13:00
Free Lunch
13:00-14:15
Lecture Sessions 2 / Dymola overview and workflow
  • Creating new models / Settings parameters
  • Dymola workflow: check, translate, simulate, plot
Exercise Develop and simulate your first model
14:15-14:45
Free Break
14:45-16:00
Lecture Session 3 / Modelica overview
  • Text editor
  • Variables and parameters
  • Equation-based components
Exercise “Hello World” in Modelica
Exercise Getting physical: Cooling an object with air
Exercise Pendulum
16:00-16:30
Lecture Session 4 / The Modelica Buildings Library (by Michael Wetter)


Day 2

09:30-10:45
Lecture Session 5 / Heat transfer in Modelica and Object-oriented features
  • 1D discretization of heat conduction (solving PDEs)
  • Object-oriented modeling: Packages and interfaces
Exercise Constructing a RC lumped model
Exercise Packaged and interfaces
10:45-11:00
Free Break
11:00-12:15
Hands-on training Session 6 / Modeling a simple house
  • Building envelope (walls and windows)
  • Weather boundary conditions
12:15-13:15
Free Lunch
13:15-14:45
Hands-on training Session 7 / Heating system
  • Radiator
  • Sensors and controls
14:45-15:15
Free Break
15:15-17:00
Hands-on training Session 8 / Air-based cooling system
  • Detailed thermal zone
  • Fans and cooling machine
  • Control system


Day 3

09:30-10:45
Hands-on Training Session 9 / District heating system I
  • Heating demand profiles
  • Substations
10:45-11:00
Free Break
11:00-12:15
Hands-on training Session 10 / District heating system II
  • Central thermal plant
  • Piping distribution network
  • Ground heat losses
12:15-13:15
Free Lunch
13:15-14:45
Final assignment I Session 11
  • Presentation of the final assignment
  • Starting to work on the assignment in class
14:45-15:15
Free Break
15:15-16:30
Final Assignment II Session 12
  • Continuing to work on the final assignment
16:30-17:00
Social Closing remarks
  • Coffee and sweets 🍭
  • Q&A
  • Feedback from students