Modeling and Simulation of Engineering Systems

Introduction to modeling and simulation in engineering application, Definition of computer simulation. General concepts of modeling. The concept of model state. Descriptive variables. Experimental frames and simplified models. Discrete simulation. Probability, distributions and random numbers generation. Simulation "Monte Carlo". Continuous simulation. Possible continuous model representations: ordinary differential equation “ODE”, Signal Flow, Bond Graphs. Numerical methods for ODEs. System Dynamics “SD”. Classification of dynamic systems System thinking. SD software tools. Advanced topics.