OpenModelica is a unique large-scale integrated open-source Modelica-and FMI-based modeling, simulation, optimization, model-based analysis and development environment. Moreover, the OpenModelica environment provides a number of facilities such as debugging; optimization; visualization and 3D animation; web-based model editing and simulation; scripting from Modelica, Python, Julia, and Matlab; efficient simulation and co-simulation of FMI-based models; compilation for embedded systems; Modelica-UML integration; requirement verification; and generation of parallel code for multi-core architectures. The environment is based on the equation-based object-oriented Modelica language and currently uses the MetaModelica extended version of Modelica for its model compiler implementation. This overview paper gives an up-to-date description of the capabilities of the system, short overviews of used open source symbolic and numeric algorithms with pointers to published literature, tool integration aspects, some lessons learned, and the main vision behind its development.
Recently the Julia language has become an option for scientific computing. As of 2020, efforts exist to provide libraries that emulate the equation-based modeling features provided by Modelica or otherwise provide such functionality in Julia. The issue with these approaches is that investment in standardization and libraries would be lost unless standard-compliance is guaranteed. We believe that it is possible to combine features from both by implementing such a compiler in Julia. We argue that this approach would open additional opportunities. One such being the handling of variable structure systems (VSS) within the framework of a Modelica standard-compliant compiler. The other being a proposed compiler architecture reminiscent of LLVM for equation-based objectoriented languages. Using the OpenModelica Compiler as a baseline, we verified the fidelity of our implementation by simulating a selected set of models. While there are performance penalties, we argue that improvements to the frontend would mitigate these issues.
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