Advanced OpenModelica: Modular System Modeling

About Course

Welcome to Advanced OpenModelica: Modular System Modeling, a hands-on course designed to enhance your system modeling skills for energy and power applications. Learn structured, modular, and scalable workflows in OMEdit to build multi-cell and multi-stack models, run simulations, and analyze results.

This course builds on foundational OpenModelica knowledge, teaching you to design clean, professional models, manage parameters systematically, implement parameterized blocks, and create icons and interfaces for modular systems, skills directly applicable in engineering, research, and industrial projects.

What You Will Learn

Design modular, scalable system models
Extend component models to multi-component
Define and manage parameters efficiently
Use arrays, extensions, and blocks to streamline modeling
Build and organize visual and textual models in OMEdit
Create icons and interfaces for modular model instantiation
Run simulations and analyze system behavior, including shunt currents
Export results as CSV for further analysis
Apply best practices for maintainable, extensible models

Who This Course Is For

Engineers, researchers, and students in energy, power, or multi-domain systems
Anyone with basic OpenModelica knowledge seeking advanced skills
Learners interested in structured, modular system modeling for practical applications

Course Highlights

Project-driven, hands-on approach with real-world energy and power systems
Step-by-step guidance for advanced OMEdit workflows
Modular system design and structured project organization
Multi-cell and multi-stack modeling exercises
Simulation, analysis, and CSV export techniques
Focus on scalable, professional, and maintainable models

Why This Course Exists

This course fills the gap in structured, practical training for complex system modeling. Most advanced resources are either too theoretical or lack professional workflows. This course provides hands-on, project-focused learning to develop scalable, analyzable models.

What Comes Next

Future courses will extend this work to the hydraulic side, covering flow battery dynamics, fluid libraries, and controller design, and demonstrate integration of electrical and hydraulic systems to explore optimal operation for combined systems.

Design modular, scalable system models
Extend component models to multi-component
Define and manage parameters efficiently
Use arrays, extensions, and blocks to streamline modeling
Build and organize visual and textual models in OMEdit
Create icons and interfaces for modular model instantiation
Run simulations and analyze system behavior, including shunt currents
Export results as CSV for further analysis
Apply best practices for maintainable, extensible models

Course Content

Course Introduction
A quick overview of the course, the project-driven approach you'll follow, and the modular, reusable models you'll build in OMEdit throughout.

Course Introduction and Learning Approach

Project Deep Dive
Get introduced to the real-world energy system used as the project foundation for this course. Explore shunt current, equivalent circuit translation, and the factors that shape system efficiency, setting up the modeling work in the modules ahead.

Modeling Fundamentals and Project Structure
Move into hands-on OMEdit work. Build a two-cell model from the ground up, apply custom units and arrays, extend and structure models for reuse, and define parameters, interfaces, and icons for a scalable, modular project.

Multi-Cell Stack Modeling and Simulation
Scale the two-cell model into a full 20-cell stack. Organize parameters for easy modification, build and test modular blocks, and analyze shunt current distribution across the stack.

Modular Multi-Stack Modeling and Exporting Results
Extend the stack model into multi-stack configurations. Compare series and parallel setups, tune manifold and channel parameters, and export simulation results to CSV for analysis.

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Advanced OpenModelica: Modular System Modeling

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Course Introduction
A quick overview of the course, the project-driven approach you'll follow, and the modular, reusable models you'll build in OMEdit throughout.

Course Introduction and Learning Approach

Project Deep Dive
Get introduced to the real-world energy system used as the project foundation for this course. Explore shunt current, equivalent circuit translation, and the factors that shape system efficiency, setting up the modeling work in the modules ahead.

Module Content & Shunt Current Basics

Flow Battery Operation and Shunt Current

Translating the System into an Equivalent Circuit

Shunt Current Profiles, Influencing Factors, and System Impact

Modeling Fundamentals and Project Structure
Move into hands-on OMEdit work. Build a two-cell model from the ground up, apply custom units and arrays, extend and structure models for reuse, and define parameters, interfaces, and icons for a scalable, modular project.

Module Overview and Conceptual Background

Custom Units in OMEdit

Extends and Arrays in OMEdit

Structuring the OpenModelica Project

Building a Two-Cell Model in OMEdit

Defining Parameters for Structured Modeling

Assigning Parameters and Simulating the Two-Cell Model

Defining Interfaces and Icons for Models

Multi-Cell Stack Modeling and Simulation
Scale the two-cell model into a full 20-cell stack. Organize parameters for easy modification, build and test modular blocks, and analyze shunt current distribution across the stack.

Module Overview

Building and Testing a Five-Cell Block

Organizing Components and Assigning Parameters

Creating Interfaces and Icons for Multi-Cell Models

Building a 20-Cell Stack Using Modular Blocks

Simulating and Validating the 20-Cell Stack

Module Summary

Modular Multi-Stack Modeling and Exporting Results
Extend the stack model into multi-stack configurations. Compare series and parallel setups, tune manifold and channel parameters, and export simulation results to CSV for analysis.

Module Overview

Creating Multi-Stack Systems with Series Configuration

Defining Component Parameters for Multi-Stack Systems

Creating a Parallel Multi-Stack Model

Exporting and Analyzing Multi-Stack Simulation Results

Course Summary and Key Takeaways

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Course Introduction A quick overview of the course, the project-driven approach you'll follow, and the modular, reusable models you'll build in OMEdit throughout.

Course Introduction and Learning Approach

Project Deep Dive Get introduced to the real-world energy system used as the project foundation for this course. Explore shunt current, equivalent circuit translation, and the factors that shape system efficiency, setting up the modeling work in the modules ahead.

Module Content & Shunt Current Basics

Flow Battery Operation and Shunt Current

Translating the System into an Equivalent Circuit

Shunt Current Profiles, Influencing Factors, and System Impact

Modeling Fundamentals and Project Structure Move into hands-on OMEdit work. Build a two-cell model from the ground up, apply custom units and arrays, extend and structure models for reuse, and define parameters, interfaces, and icons for a scalable, modular project.

Module Overview and Conceptual Background

Custom Units in OMEdit

Extends and Arrays in OMEdit

Structuring the OpenModelica Project

Building a Two-Cell Model in OMEdit

Defining Parameters for Structured Modeling

Assigning Parameters and Simulating the Two-Cell Model

Defining Interfaces and Icons for Models

Multi-Cell Stack Modeling and Simulation Scale the two-cell model into a full 20-cell stack. Organize parameters for easy modification, build and test modular blocks, and analyze shunt current distribution across the stack.

Module Overview

Building and Testing a Five-Cell Block

Organizing Components and Assigning Parameters

Creating Interfaces and Icons for Multi-Cell Models

Building a 20-Cell Stack Using Modular Blocks

Simulating and Validating the 20-Cell Stack

Module Summary

Modular Multi-Stack Modeling and Exporting Results Extend the stack model into multi-stack configurations. Compare series and parallel setups, tune manifold and channel parameters, and export simulation results to CSV for analysis.

Module Overview

Creating Multi-Stack Systems with Series Configuration

Defining Component Parameters for Multi-Stack Systems

Creating a Parallel Multi-Stack Model

Exporting and Analyzing Multi-Stack Simulation Results

Course Summary and Key Takeaways

Student Ratings & Reviews

Course Introduction
A quick overview of the course, the project-driven approach you'll follow, and the modular, reusable models you'll build in OMEdit throughout.

Project Deep Dive
Get introduced to the real-world energy system used as the project foundation for this course. Explore shunt current, equivalent circuit translation, and the factors that shape system efficiency, setting up the modeling work in the modules ahead.

Modeling Fundamentals and Project Structure
Move into hands-on OMEdit work. Build a two-cell model from the ground up, apply custom units and arrays, extend and structure models for reuse, and define parameters, interfaces, and icons for a scalable, modular project.

Multi-Cell Stack Modeling and Simulation
Scale the two-cell model into a full 20-cell stack. Organize parameters for easy modification, build and test modular blocks, and analyze shunt current distribution across the stack.

Modular Multi-Stack Modeling and Exporting Results
Extend the stack model into multi-stack configurations. Compare series and parallel setups, tune manifold and channel parameters, and export simulation results to CSV for analysis.