Dymola is a physical modelling and simulation

tool, used for model based design of complex

systems.
Dymola uses the Modelica modelling language to define models and provides the user with
open access to the language. This means that you are free to create your own model libraries
or extend from the existing Modelica libraries to accelerate development times, reduce
maintenance efforts and improve the level of reuse across projects.

A portfolio of multi-domain libraries covering the mechanical, electrical, control, thermal,

pneumatic, hydraulic, powertrain, thermodynamics, vehicle dynamics, air-conditioning
domains can be coupled together to form a single complete model of the system. Dymola is
used by companies operating in many industries including automotive, aerospace,
architecture, motorsport, energy and high tech.
Dymola supports the FMI Standard for the import and export of models. It supports FMI 1.0
and 2.0 for both model exchange and co-simulation. In addition, Dymola supports real-time
simulation on a wide range of HiL platforms.
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Key Features
Modelica language
Dymola fully supports the Modelica modelling language which is an open standard
developed by the Modelica Association. Modelica is an open source, component orientated,
physical modelling language.

FMI import and export

Dymola supports the FMI standard for model exchange. It can import and export FMU’s that
are compliant with FMI 1.0, FMI 2.0 and both model exchange and co-simulation aspects of
the standard. A Simulink Coder target is also provided to compile Simulink models into
FMU’s.

Component orientated
Modelica libraries contain objects that represent physical components such as valves,
resistors, gears. Models are created graphically by drag and drop to build a schematic of the
system.

Modelica libraries
An extensive range of Modelica application libraries are available covering many different
engineering domains and industries. These libraries cover domains such as hydraulics and
mechanics as well as applications like vehicle dynamics, engines and buildings.

Real-time simulation
Dymola supports real-time simulation with many HiL platforms including dSpace,
Concurrent, xPC and many others that support Simulink or FMI. Complete MultiBody
vehicle dynamics models can be run in real-time.

Symbolic manipulation
Dymola uses symbolic manipulation to give it outstanding performance for solving
differential algebraic equations (DAE). These routines also handle algebraic loops and
reduced degrees-of-freedom caused by constraints.

Optional Features
Binary model export
Enables the export of models as executables, dll’s, fmu’s and s-functions for distribution to
many other users

Simulink Interface
Dymola can export models to run as s-functions in Simulink making them fully compatible
with HiL platforms supported by Simulink.

Design Optimisation
The Dymola Optimisation option supports multiple parameter, multiple case optimisation
studies to help explore the design space and optimise the performance.

Source code export

The source code generation option enables models to be exported as platform independent C
code so that the model can be integrated with your own solvers and platforms.