Modelica Basics

If you need an introduction to Modelica, we recommend Michael Tiller's free online book Modelica by Example and the Modelica Tutorial. Although the Modelica Tutorial is for an older version (Modelica 1.4), it is still instructive and relevant to understand the concepts of the language.

Spoken tutorials for beginners are available for the modeling and simulation environment OpenModelica.

To start using Modelica, run some of the example models of the AixLib library. The example models can be found in the packages Examples. Make variations in these examples by changing values of model parameters or by replacing existing component models by other components of the AixLib library or the MSL (Modelica Standard Library). The MSL is automatically loaded when starting Dymola or OpenModelica.