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Modeling

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Modeling

IDA systems may exist on three different levels:

Wizard level: The user fills in a form (or a few forms in turn) and starts a simulation. The user has no direct control over the physical or mathematical model of the simulated system.

Physical level: The user builds a physical model of the simulated system, but has no direct control over the mathematical model.

Mathematical level: The user directly builds the mathematical model of the simulated system. No physical model required.

Mixed systems: IDA applications may support mixed systems containing components of different levels.

The steps of the modeling are listed in the table below depending on the level of the IDA system:


	Wizard	Physical level	Mathematical level
Opening an IDA system	✅	✅	✅
Navigating an IDA system		✅	✅
Building the contents		✅	✅
Connecting components			✅
Setting start conditions			✅
Setting boundary conditions			✅
Parameter setting	✅	✅	✅
Preparing output		✅	✅

An IDA application may provide a possibility for gradual modeling: the user may start by filling in the wizard form and then convert it to the physical model, modify this description, and convert it to the mathematical model.

IDA applications may also support folders (multi-system projects) that may consist of several systems of any level, and version projects facilitates maintaining differences between similar systems and comparing the results of simulations.