Components

When most people think of Modelica, they think of the component-oriented approach that it enables. As such, how to build such component models is probably the single most important topic to cover in this book.

Until now, we’ve focused primarily on how to describe the mathematical behavior (both continuous and discrete). Now it is time to understand how that behavior can be wrapped up into reusable component models. The fact that these component models are reusable means that, once written and tested, the same code can be used over and over. This kind of reuse saves development time, avoids errors and simplifies maintenance.