Modelica® Language Specification version 3.6

Appendix D Modelica Revision History

This appendix describes the history of the Modelica Language Design, and its contributors. This appendix is just present for historic reasons and is not normative. The current version of this document is available from https://modelica.org/documents.

D.1 Modelica 3.6

Modelica 3.6 will later be voted to be approved. The Modelica 3.6 specification was edited by Hans Olsson.

D.1.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.6

The following Modelica Change Proposals are backward compatible extensions added in 3.6:

Additionally the specification.modelica.org landing page was updated with search functionality, #2911 correcting #2404.

Other issues resolved were:

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    Deprecate String formatting of Real as Integer #3328.

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    Improve definition of exponentation #3285.

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    Clarified predefined type names, #3325 closing #2813.

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    Only restrict public connectors in blocks, #3318 closing #3309.

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    Improve iterator examples #3317.

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    Remove extends FilledShape from Text-definitions, #3316 closes #2157.

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    Clarified each #3314 closing #3052.

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    Clarified lookup for choices #3307.

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    Constrain array assignment with implicit iterators #3306 closing #3250.

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    Refence connector balancing restriction #3305 closing #3260.

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    Correction: connect-clause was renamed to be connect-equation #3304.

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    Corrected example by adding type specifier #3303.

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    Don’t say that String supports String, because it doesn’t #3288 closing #3264.

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    Clarified that clock is only determined from equations #3283 closing #3265.

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    Clarify encapsulated short class definition #3282 closing #3270.

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    Correct broken link for a paper #3281.

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    Clarify the difference between when-equations and clocked when #3279 closing #3001.

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    Clean-up of terminology related to connection equations #3277 closing #3273.

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    Clarify String named argument combinations #3262.

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    Specify that extent and preserveAspectRatio use the same logic #3253 closing #3219.

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    Don’t give impression of undefined behavior being error #3248.

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    Clarify that a when-clause cannot activate multiple reinit for the same variable #3246.

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    More advanced elaboration for expandable connectors #3241 closing #3147.

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    Adjust non-normative description of smoothOrder #3237 closing #3200.

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    Clarify role of protected components passed to external functions #3236 closing #3188.

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    Add example for shiftSample #3233 closing #3040.

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    Add clocked discrete-time expressions to discrete-time, #3231 closing #3116.

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    Clarify record type compatible #3230 closing #3145.

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    Extend choicesAllMatching to records, #3229 closing #3210.

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    Remove zero start value and explain alternative, #3226.

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    Fix hard-coded cross references related to function application #3221.

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    Clarify elsewhen #3217 and #3228 closing #3216.

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    Correct invalid reference, #3218.

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    Also mention outputs when presenting list of inputs and outputs, #3215.

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    Clarify previous parameter expression #3214 closing #3074.

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    Annotation to limit number of connections #3212 and #3129 closing #3117.

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    Forbid combination of parameter and input, #3211 closing #3141.

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    Add directorySelector #3207.

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    Explain abs no event clarification #3202.

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    Clarify that URIs shall also be converted #3201 closing #3199.

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    Clarify non-normative text for expandable connectors #3197 and #3195 closing #3194.

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    Remove arrayLayout since most tools have not implemented it, #3196 closing #3189.

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    Mandatory ignoring of trailing ”1” in defaultComponentName, #3186 closing #3151.

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    Give a procedure for getting another name for components #3182 closing #3151.

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    Clarified that you cannot have equations or algorithm in types #3180 closing #3157.

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    Clarified ”operator” #3179 closing #3171.

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    Clarify odd cases of IconMap and DiagramMap ’extent’ #3160 closing #3150.

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    Illustrate potential implicit nature of discrete-time Real variable equations #3159.

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    Avoid need to define a term (simulator) #3152.

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    Define initialization, and simulation #3146.

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    Provide better alternative in Clock Example #3144 closing #3143.

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    Make it more clear that noEvent can make a difference inside functions #3142 closing #3136.

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    Variability rule for multiple return assignment (clarification) #3135.

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    Clarify DAE representation of discrete equations #3134 closing #3127.

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    Clarify nested records, #3130 closing #3128.

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    Do not require that all conditional connectors must be connected #3129 closing #3117.

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    A class is not a specialized class #3121.

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    Improve description of operator precedence #3119 closing #3110.

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    Clarify problem with non-clocked sample in clocked systems #3099.

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    Generalize calling functions through instances #3097 closing #3089.

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    Allow specifying both choices and choicesAllMatching (clarification) #3096 closing #3084.

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    Make conversion example clearer (clarification) #3095 closing #3081.

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    Allow ”flow” for operator record which was defined #3094.

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    Simplify logic in Modelica code examples #3092 closing #3080.

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    Clarify synchronous code for odd cases #3090.

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    Minor corrections with empty arrays #3087.

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    Specify that all strings can be Unicode #3079 closing #3070.

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    Call the preferredView string the ’view’ #3071.

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    Add icon to list of views #3067 closing #2987.

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    Clarify pure #3066 closing #2971.

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    Make GenerateEvents imply inlining #3065 closing #2986.

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    Clarify reinit #3063 closing #3001.

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    Clarify degree formatting #3048 closing #3020.

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    Allow derivatives to be referenced in figures #3046 closing #3044.

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    Make use of component variability when defining expression variability #3039.

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    Say we do ’cyber-physical systems’, aligning with modelica.org #3037.

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    Clarify array range operator #3031 closing #3028.

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    Remove non-compensation sentence #3022.

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    Improve start-value priority by considering parameters #3019 closing #3008.

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    Clarify operator #3018 closing #3015.

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    Improved example for external function call #3010.

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    Turned equations into assignments in when-algorithm #2998.

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    Clearly define discrete time variable #2989.

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    Do not incorrectly use import name #2980 closing #2974.

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    Improve text for initialization #2961 closing #2947.

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    Clean up formulations and formatting related to ’is not provided’ in ’Synchronous Language Elements’ #2946.

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    Clarify that URI is absolute URI, might be changed later #2930 closing #2701.

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    Don’t repeatedly explain that non-discrete time is continuous-time #2923 closing #2891.

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    Remove outdated reference of MSL for GenerateEvents annotation #2914.

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    Rephrase implied discrete-valued equation rule as non-normative observation #2907.

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    Improve description of string allocation functions #2903 closing #2858.

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    Don’t present value of predefined type as having a name #2902 closing #2869.

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    Explain potential ambiguity of providing inverse functions #2901 closing #2866.

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    Constrain dimension of equalityConstraint #2898 closing #2886. Updated to restore non-strict inequality for dimension of equalityConstraint #2909.

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    Fix description of ”proposes to not inline” #2894.

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    Better variant of difference equation vs. algorithm #2890 closing #2814.

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    Clarify that Figure.caption and identifiers have an empty default #2889 closing #2851.

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    Clarified defaults for Dialog-annotation #2888 closing #2854.

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    Clarify discrete and remove odd statement about Pantelides #2887.

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    Clarified derivative example text #2881.

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    Clarify that continuous-time algorithm as well #2875 closing #2817.

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    Improved source directory example #2874 closing #2847.

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    Allow optional semicolon for conversions #2870 closing #2801.

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    Increase copyright year #2865.

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    Clarify noDerivative and zeroDerivative, #2864 closing #2840.

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    Add restriction on inverse and derivative #2863 closing #2837.

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    State that external objects must not depend on themselves, #2862 closing #2845.

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    Clean up example ”Variables with array dimensions” #2857 closing #2855.

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    Don’t call the Dialog a ”menu” #2849.

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    Stop saying that ’promote’ isn’t a Modelica function #2844 closing #2843.

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    Use macro and proper reference #2834.

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    Clean up description of the Dialog annotation #2819 closing #2476.

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    Remove incorrect string quoting of ’+’ for string concatenation #2810.

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    Remove comment with definition of ’partial flattening’ from old glossary #2807 closing #2787.

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    Switch from 3.5 to 3.6-dev; #2791 and #2794.

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    Better integration of terms ’instantaneous equation/statement’ #2788.

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    Say ’variable value’ instead of ’value-attribute’ #2786.

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    Treat ’connect’ like the keyword it is in listings #2785.

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    Improvements in the style of presentations including correcting typos:

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      Update bibliography item #3338 closing #3337.

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      Fix minor typo, #3333.

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      Fix indentation error in listing, #3331.

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      Consistent punctuation for ”e.g.” and ”i.e.” #3329 closing #3235.

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      Simplified presentation of Transformation-annotation, #3326 closing #3275.

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      Explained quote around code fragments, #3324 closing #3191.

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      Clean up absoluteValue formatting #3301.

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      Split the restrictions for when-equations into two lists, #3292.

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      Add missing ”if” in ”if and only they” #3289.

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      Fix formatting of ’if-clause’ #3276.

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      Fix grammar ’is’ -¿ ’are’ #3272 closing #3271.

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      Add ’cat’ to document index #3268.

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      Fix missing formatting of ”T” #3267.

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      Work-around for table issue in LaTeXML #3208 and #3205 closing #3156.

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      Add ’time’ to document index #3203.

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      Remove spurious semi-colons #3193 closing #3192.

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      Clarified description of BaseProperties in example #3190.

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      Avoid bad leading white-space inside strings in StateSelect definition #3185.

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      Fix false indention in code listings #3181 and #3183.

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      Fix typo ’GraphicsItem’ -¿ ’GraphicItem’ #3176.

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      Correctly use may be #3174 closing #3165.

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      Minor cleanup for for-equation listings #3170.

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      Library annotation supports arrays, not tuples #3132.

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      Remove trailing blank #3124.

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      Add trailing semicolon #3120.

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      Clean up quadrature listings #3114.

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      Changed y into x in spatialDistribution() definitions clarification #3113.

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      Add missing closing ’!’ in preferredView specification #3112.

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      Fix indentation of listings related to versionDate and friends #3105.

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      Version annotation indent #3104.

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      Fix indentation of Ellipse pseudo-code record definition #3085.

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      Fix oversize listing lines #3082.

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      Make first part of section name matter #3073 and shorten in #3100.

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      Better definition of comments #3064 closing #2992.

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      Fix minor issues in chapter ’Connectors and Connections’ #3061.

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      Remove incorrect escaping of ’&’ in bibliography ’url’ entry #3059 closing #3056.

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      More stable links for openprod #3058 closing #3055.

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      Remove leading www from web-links #3057 closing #3054.

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      Remove excessive indexing of ’inverse’ annotation #3050 closing #3047.

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      Improve descriptions of notation #3045 closing #3044.

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      Tighten connection between and document index #3043 correcting #3041.

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      Fix typos in Section 5.4 #3032 and #3036.

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      Ensure that Modelica code in HTML is teletype! #3034.

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      Sentence-based line breaking in operatorsandexpressions.tex #3030.

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      Remove unused parameter ’p’ in example for ’smooth’ #3029.

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      Fix problems with ’parenthesis’ in the singular #3027 closing #3026.

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      Fix typo for homotopy #3016.

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      Clean up chapter ’Unit Expressions’ #3013.

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      Cleanup file hierarchy listings #3011.

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      Fix year in date reference #3002.

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      Fix formatting of ’when’, ’elsewhen’, and ’when initial()’ #3000.

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      Consistently quote in grammar (and remove one spurious ;) #2990 closing #2988.

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      Small cleanup of scoping chapter #2982.

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      Fix typo: ’subsample’ -¿ ’subSample’ #2979.

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      Start bullet item with upper case letter #2976.

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      Cross reference multiple extends rule, and related cleanup #2978.

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      Mostly trivial clean up related to equations and statements #2975.

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      Fix typo in specification of ’delay’ #2973.

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      Align keywords for ’grammar’ with keywords for ’modelica’ #2972.

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      Remove copy-paste from unknown source #2970 closing #2968.

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      Correct double for (introduced in #2916) #2969 closing #2966.

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      Fix moist air2 and apply the style guide to the next paragraph #2964 closing #2963.

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      Move and add reference to rule about constants having declaration equation #2960 closing #2945.

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      Add style guide section on inline code at beginning of sentence #2959 closing #2943.

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      Gather annotations for functions #2922 closing #2895.

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      Apply style guide #2916 closing #2713.

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      Add blank after extends #2913.

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      Cleanup of ”Matching Function” #2910.

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      Fix line breaks in connector examples #2906 and #2905.

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      Fix bad backslash in C-code #2897.

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      Add specification document style guide #2884 closing #2713.

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      Styling cleanup for ’derivative’ annotation #2883.

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      Fix white-space errors in recently introduced example on derivative #2880.

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      Break down first items describing ExternalObject #2879.

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      Be more consistent with Modelica.StateGraph #2876 closing #2839.

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      Revert ”Use angle brackets for ’¡describing text¿’ in listings #2868 closing #2867.

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      Add missing plural ’s’ #2860.

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      Minor formatting cleanup related to colon (:) dimensions #2856.

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      More systematic use of origure annotations Axis and Curve #2850.

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      Cleanup formatting related to lexical conventions #2846.

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      Minor cleanup of inline code and math for Derivative annotation #2836.

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      Align duplicated parts of lexing rules #2831.

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      Protect space after LaTeX #2829.

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      Typo corrections from revision 3.5 #2828.

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      Clean up ellipsis and angle brackets in listings #2812.

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      Avoid overlong lines #2809 closes #2796.

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      Add ’MODELICAPATH’ to the index #2808.

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      Fix typo in ’bibliography’ #2803.

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      Use colon instead of dash when attaching ’th’ to ordinals #2793.

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      Use comments instead of text escape in array indexing listing #2789.

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      Fix issues with C listings #2784 (already added in 3.5).

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      Don’t treat ’nondiscrete’ as keyword in listings #2783.

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    Improvements in build system and LaTeX (including workarounds):

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      Only load cmap.sty when building PDF #3323.

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      Add globs to cleaning targets #3319.

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      Comments regarding recently fixed LaTeXML issues #3308.

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      Do not remove curl from the docker image #3299.

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      Support search and copying of ligatures #3296, #3294 closing #3286.

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      Update to texlive 2022 #3148.

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      Use the listings.sty option upquote=true LaTeXIssue with the LaTeX code #3123 closing #3122.

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      Address fancyhdr warning about too small ’headheight’ #3086.

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      Update status regarding LaTeXML issue 1719 #3083.

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      Name the HTML entry page ’index.html’ #3077 closing #3076.

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      Increase sizes a bit, and use ”smallifpdf” for comments #3072.

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      Tweak CSS for :target:before #3069 closing #2967.

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      Work around LaTeXML problem with line breaks around ’tabbing’ environment #3042 closing #3009.

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      Add space for LaTeXML to fix formatting of -2 #3025 and #3033 closing #3024.

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      (Continuous integration) Set a username before git commit #3021.

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      Avoid just a ’0’ in lstinline when generating HTML #2993 closing #2991.

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      Update comments about LaTeXML issues that are now fixed on ’master’ #2983.

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      (Continuous integration) Workaround for the markdown image not having ssh-agent #2939.

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      Make the menu hover work on iOS Safari #2934.

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      Do not use block links in the page header #2933.

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      Add a meta viewport tag to counter small text #2932.

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      Push builds to github-pages instead of SSH upload #2925.

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      Add newtxtt.sty to LaTeXML continuous integration builds #2908.

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      Add comments with TODOs after LaTeXML issue is fixed #2882.

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      Added logo in ReadMe.md #2877, #2873, and #2833.

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      Avoid current HTML jump target being hidden behind page header #2841.

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      Remove HTML footer links to bibliography and index #2832.

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      Remove Travis CI badge from README.md #2821.

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      Add keywords to generated PDF, #2802.

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      Update comment regarding LaTeXML issue 1400 (now fixed) #2800.

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      Improve navbar on top page #2799.

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      Pass option ’pdfusetitle’ to hyperref.sty #2797 closing #2795.

D.2 Modelica 3.5

Modelica 3.5 was last edited December 31, 2020, and will later be voted to be approved. The Modelica 3.5 specification was edited by Hans Olsson.

D.2.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.5

The following Modelica Change Proposals are backward compatible extensions added in 3.5:

Other issues resolved were:

D.3 Modelica 3.4

Modelica 3.4 was released April 10, 2017. The Modelica 3.4 specification was edited by Hans Olsson.

D.3.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.4

The following Modelica Change Proposals are backward compatible extensions added in 3.4:

The definition of pure functions was refined, in particular to restore backwards compatibility with Modelica 3.2, section 12.3. Ticket #1937.

The following minor improvements were made (starting from 3.3 Revision 1):

D.3.2 Contributors to the Modelica Language 3.4

The members of the Modelica Association contributed to the Modelica 3.4 specification.

D.4 Modelica 3.3 Revision 1

Modelica 3.3 Revision 1 was released July 11, 2014. The Modelica 3.3 Revision 1 specification was edited by Hans Olsson.

D.4.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.3 Revision 1

The changes made in Modelica 3.2 Revision 2 are included, and in addition the following improvements were made:

D.4.2 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.3 Revision 1

The following members of the Modelica Association contributed to the Modelica 3.3 Revision 1 and/or Modelica 3.2 Revision 2 specification (alphabetical list):

  • Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

  • Peter Fritzson, PELAB, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  • Hilding Elmqvist, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Christoph Höger, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

  • Jesper Mattsson, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

  • Hans Olsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Martin Otter, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

  • Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  • Elena Shmoylova, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

  • Martin Sjölund, PELAB, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  • Stefan Vorkoetter, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

D.5 Modelica 3.3

Modelica 3.3 was released on May 9, 2012. The Modelica 3.3 specification was edited by Hans Olsson, Hilding Elmqvist and Martin Otter.

D.5.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.3

The following backward compatible extensions have been introduced with Modelica 3.3:

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    Language elements for describing synchronous behavior suited for implementation of control systems, chapter 16.

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    Language elements to define synchronous state machines, chapter 17.

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    The spatialDistribution function for special one-dimensional flow problems, section 3.7.4.2.

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    The getInstanceName function for diagnostic messages, section 3.7.4.6.

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    Possible to call a function through an instance name, section 5.3.2.

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    Can use the start-attribute for a parameter to give a non-zero default that should be changed, section 8.6.

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    A recommened procedure for priority between initial values have been added, section 8.6.2.

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    Functions can be defined without algorithm-section, section 12.2.

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    Functions can be marked as pure or impure with specified semantics, section 12.3.

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    The rules for ExternalObject have been clarified, section 12.9.7 and chapter 6.

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    Multiple definition import, section 13.2.

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    Additional annotations allowing:

The following changes in Modelica 3.3 are not backwards compatible:

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    Chapter 16 from Modelica 3.2 has been removed (a more powerful functionality is instead provided with the new chapter 16 and chapter 17). Since, no released tools has yet supported the previous chapter 16, this not backwards compatible change is uncritical.

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    The new spatialDistribution and getInstanceName functions could cause problems if another function with that name was already used.

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    Conditional physical connectors must be connected if enabled, section 4.4.5 and section 9.3. In almost all cases they have to be connected to generate correct result, and it is not possible to check that they are connected in the models

D.5.2 Contributors to Modelica 3.3

The language elements for describing synchronous behavior, chapter 16, was mainly developed by Hilding Elmqvist, Martin Otter, and Sven Erik Mattsson. Hilding Elmqvist wrote a detailed tutorial. Sven Erik Mattsson developed a test implementation of the language elements and the needed new algorithms. Based on the prototype, tests and feedback have been provided by Martin Otter and Bernhard Thiele.

The language elements to define synchronous state machines, chapter 17, was mainly developed by Hilding Elmqvist with contributions from Francois Dupont, Sven Erik Mattsson and Fabien Gaucher. Hilding Elmqvist wrote a tutorial. Sven Erik Mattsson and Carl-Fredrik Abelson developed a test implementation. Based on the prototype, tests and feedback have been provided by Alain Thura, Emmanuel Ledinot, Claire Campan, and Martin Malmheden.

The spatialDistribution operator was initiated by Hubertus Tummescheit, based on an operator of Dymola, and with contributions from Hans Olsson.

The improved definition of pure and impure functions and the enhanced import-clause was proposed by Peter Fritzson.

The various smaller language improvements based on submitted tickets have been developed by a group headed by Hans Olsson and with group members Peter Fritzson, Christoph Höger, Gerd Kurzbach, Jesper Mattsson, Martin Sjölund, and Stefan Vorkoetter.

The following members of the Modelica Association participated at design meetings and contributed to the Modelica 3.3 specification:

  • Johan Åkesson, Lund University and Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

  • Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

  • Ingrid Bausch-Gall, BAUSCH-GALL GmbH, Munich, Germany

  • Volker Beuter, Kämmerer AG, Germany

  • Torsten Blochwitz, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

  • David Broman, PELAB, Linköping University, Sweden

  • Dag Brück, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Francesco Casella, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Christoph Clauss, Fraunhofer, Dresden, Germany

  • Mike Dempsey, Claytex Services Limited, Leamington Spa, U.K.

  • Karin Dietl, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

  • Francois Dupont, Dassault Systèmes, Brest, France

  • Jonas Eborn, Modelon, Lund, Sweden

  • Hilding Elmqvist, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Guilioano Fontanella, AIT, Vienna, Austria

  • Rüdiger Franke, ABB Power Generation, Mannheim, Germany

  • Peter Fritzson, PELAB, Linköping University, Sweden

  • Sébastien Furic, LMS International, Roanne. France

  • Leo Gall, BAUSCH-GALL Gmbh, Munich, Germany

  • Peter Harman, deltatheta uk limited, U.K.

  • Anton Haumer, AIT, Vienna, Austria

  • Dan Henriksson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Christoph Höger, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  • Christian Kral, AIT, Vienna, Austria

  • Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

  • Kilian Link, Siemens AB, Erlangen, Germany

  • Krisitin Majetta, Fraunhofer, Dresden, Germany

  • Martin Malmheden, Dassault Systèmes, Velicy, France

  • Jesper Mattsson, Modelon, Lund, Sweden

  • Sven Erik Mattsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Eric Neuber, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

  • Ramine Nikoukhah, Altair, France

  • Hans Olsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

  • Martin Otter, DLR-RM (German Aerospace Center), Oberpfaffenhofen,Germany

  • Peter Pepper, Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany

  • Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

  • Olena Rogovchenko, PELAB, Linköping, Sweden

  • Stefan-Alexander Schneider, BMW, Munich, Germany

  • Michael Sielemann, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

  • Martin Sjölund, PELAB; Linköping, Sweden

  • Kristian Stavåker, PELAB, Linköping, Sweden

  • Bernhard Thiele, DLR-RM (German Aerospace Center), Oberpfaffenhofen,Germany

  • Eric Thomas, Dassault Aviation, Paris, France

  • Michael Tiller, Dassault Systèmes, Velicy, France

  • Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

  • Andreas Uhlig, ITI, Dresden Germany

  • Vladimir Vukovic, AIT, Vienna, Germany

  • Stefan Vorkoetter, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

  • Daniel Weil, Dassault Systèmes, Grenoble, France

  • Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland, Corporate Research, Baden,Switzerland

  • Dietmar Winkler, Telemark University College, Porsgrunn, Norway

  • Stefan Wischhusen, XRG Simulation, Hamburg, Germany

  • Dirk Zimmer, DLR-RM (German Aerospace Center), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

D.5.3 Acknowledgments

For the design of the synchronous language elements (chapter 16) and synchronous state machines (chapter 17), and for the understanding of fine details of synchronous languages, especially from Lucid Synchrone, very helpful discussions with

  • Albert Benveniste, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France

  • Marc Pouzet, Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’ENS, Paris

  • Benoit Caillaud, IRISA, Rennes, France

  • Timothy Bourke, INRIA, Rennes, France

are appreciated.

D.6 Modelica 3.2 Revision 2

Modelica 3.2 Revision 2 was released 2013. The Modelica 3.2 Revision 2 specification was edited by Hans Olsson and Martin Otter.

D.6.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.2 Revision 2

The Modelica language was slightly adapted (in a backwards compatible way, except as listed below) in order that the Modelica Standard Library (MSL) version 3.2.1 is fully compliant to Modelica Language 3.2 Revision 2. This required the following improvements compared to 3.2 Revision 1:

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    Possible to call a function through an instance name, section 5.3.2
    (used in MSL 3.2 to compute the gravity acceleration in Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.World; this feature was also introduced in Modelica Language version 3.3 in May 2012).

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    New built-in operator Connections.rooted(A.R) to inquire whether an overdetermined type or record instance A.R in a call to Connections.branch(A.R, B.R) is closer to the root of the spanning tree than B.R, section 9.4.1 (used in MSL 3.2 to avoid algebraic loops in several components such as in Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Joints.Revolute).

  • •

    Several new annotations where vendor-specific variants were used in MSL 3.2; section 7.3.4, section 18.2, section 18.3, annotation 18.2, section 4.8.7.4, and section 18.7.

  • •

    Specified that Evaluate can also occur in types, since this is used in MSL and important for performance; annotation 18.1. Ticket #925.

  • •

    Macros in graphical text items, section 18.6.5.5. Ticket #659. (This feature was also introduced in Modelica Language version 3.3.)

  • •

    Initial equations are discrete – used in MSL for initialization of pre-variables, section 3.8.4. Ticket #853.

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    Updated noDerivative to be consistent with MSL, section 12.7.1. This is an incompatibility, but the other variant was not used. Ticket #1035.

  • •

    Clarified handling of component with missingInnerMessage; section 18.7. Ticket #891.

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    Clarified definition of protected; section 4.1. Ticket #975, #1123.

In addition several issues with the specification text were corrected:

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    Clarified an unclear sequence regarding functions as input arguments in section 4.4.2.2. Ticket #1182.

  • •

    Clarified allowed binding equations for redeclarations, section 4.7. Ticket #1111.

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    Unspecified enumerations now have defined semantics, section 4.8.5.4. Ticket #834.

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    Transitively non-Replaceable, section 6.3.1. Ticket #854.

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    Modification text improved to not refer to inherited class, section 7.2. Ticket #1042.

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    Precedence for modifiers on constraining-clause clarified, section 7.3.2. Ticket #1128.

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    Clarified arrays for constraining type, section 7.3.2. Ticket #1148.

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    Avoid all forms of connections depending on connections, section 8.3.3. Ticket #828.

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    Clarified equation count for if-equations, section 8.3.4. Ticket #888.

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    Complete definition of reinit, section 8.3.6. Ticket #578. This forbids reinit in algorithms, but it was previously not well-defined.

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    Clarified initializaton of pre(vc) for a non-discrete (that is continuous-time) Real variable vc, section 8.6. Ticket #1195.

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    Only one way of handling arrays of connectors is now defined, chapter 9. Ticket #757.

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    Example now use correct sine-source, section 9.1. Ticket #750.

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    Restricted parameters in connectors, section 9.3. Ticket #768.

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    Clarified type restrictions for some operators, section 10.3.4, section 10.3.5. Ticket #622.

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    Clarified that if at least one array element is used on the left hand side of the assignment operator in an algorithm section, then the complete array is initialized in this section, section 11.1.2. Ticket #1190.

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    Record constructor corrected to not refer to keywords that should not occur, section 12.6. Ticket #907.

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    External storage of classes, section 13.4.2, section 13.4.3 and section 18.8.3. Tickets #1019, #892, #887.

  • •

    Added example and explanation for inheritance restriction on operator record; section 14.7. Ticket #1065.

  • •

    Chapter Mapping of Models to Execution Environments was removed; this change was already decided for Modelica 3.3 and no tool had released an implementation of this feature. Ticket #1015.

  • •

    Corrected license-example in section 18.9.2. Ticket #1127.

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    Grammar was internally restructured for short-class-definition, section 4.5, section A.2.2. Ticket #1140.

D.6.2 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.2 Revision 2

The following members of the Modelica Association contributed to the Modelica 3.2 Revision 2 specification (alphabetical list):

Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

Peter Fritzson, PELAB, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Christoph Höger, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Jesper Mattsson, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hans Olsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Elena Shmoylova, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

Martin Sjölund, PELAB, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Stefan Vorkoetter, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

D.7 Modelica 3.2 Revision 1

Modelica 3.2 Revision 1 was released on Feb. 29, 2012. The Modelica 3.2 Revision 1 specification was edited by Hans Olsson and Peter Fritzson.

D.7.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.2 Revision 1

The Modelica language was not changed with respect to the previous version 3.2. Only issues with the specification text have been fixed. In particular:

  • •

    Corrected typos and improved formatting.

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    section 2.2 Comments:
    There are 2 and not 3 kinds of comments and comments are treated as white space character.
    Added definition of white space character.

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    section 2.3.1 Identifiers:
    The single quotes are part of the identifier, e.g., ’x’.

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    section 3.6.7 Built-in Variable time:
    Variable time is only available in models and blocks and not in the other classes.

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    section 3.7.3 Built-in Mathematical Functions
    Definition of atan2 corrected.

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    section 3.7.4 Special Purpose Operators
    Included definition of inStream and actualStream operators from chapter 15.

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    section 3.7.5 Event-Related Operators
    Clarified, that the first argument of smooth is a scalar.
    Improved the definition of reinit.

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    section 3.8.4 Discrete-Time Expressions
    Improved definition of ordered relations (>, <, >=, <=).

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    section 4.4.5 Conditional Component Declaration
    Clarified redeclaration of a component.

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    section 4.6 Specialized Classes
    Clarified that stream cannot be used in a record.
    Clarified restrictions on elements in a connector.
    Errors in example of operator record Complex corrected.

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    section 4.8.5 Enumeration Types
    Error in example corrected.

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    section 5.5 Simulataneous Inner/Outer Declarations
    Clarified inner/outer declarations.

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    section 7.1 Inheritance
    Clarified that the elements of a flattened base class are added at the place of the extends-clause.
    Equations of the flattened base class that are syntactically equivalent to equations in the flattened enclosing class are deprecated.

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    section 7.2 Modifications
    Element modifiers are no longer part of language, reference grammar instead of duplicating it.

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    section 7.3 Redeclaration
    Improved redeclarations definition and moved an example from section 7.3.1 at the right place.

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    section 8.3.6 reinit
    Improved reinit definition.

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    section 8.6 Initialization
    Clarified that only when-clauses with restricted form of initial() as condition will be active during initialization.

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    section 10.3.4.1 Reduction Expressions
    Improved definition

  • •

    section 11.2.2.2 Types as iteration ranges
    Newly introduced section to improve the definition of iteration ranges

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    section 12.2 Function
    Added missing restrictions that model, block, inner, outer cannot be used in a function.

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    section 12.4.1 Positional or Named Input Arguments of Functions
    Corrected formal syntax of a function call

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    section 12.4.4 Initialization and Declaration Assignments of Components in Functions
    Added the restriction of acylic bindings.

  • •

    section 12.9.1.3 Records
    Mapping of arrays in records to C-structs is removed.

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    section 18.6.5.6 Bitmap
    Defined flipping more precisely.

  • •

    section A.1 Lexical conventions
    More precisely defined white-space and comments.

  • •

    section A.2 Grammar
    Improved/corrected grammar definition

D.7.2 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.2 Revision 1

The following members of the Modelica Association contributed to the Modelica 3.2 Revision 1 specification (alphabetical list):

Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

Peter Fritzson, PELAB, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Christoph Höger, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Jesper Mattsson, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hans Olsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Martin Sjölund, PELAB, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Stefan Vorkoetter, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

D.8 Modelica 3.2

Modelica 3.2 was released on March 24, 2010. The Modelica 3.2 specification was edited by Hans Olsson, Martin Otter and others.

D.8.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.2

The following backward compatible extensions have been introduced with Modelica 3.2:

  • •

    Homotopy function for making it easier to solve initialization problems (see section 3.7.4).

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    Functions as formal inputs to functions (see new section 12.4.2).

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    Overloaded operators have been refined (see chapter 14):

    • –

      A new specialized class operator record is introduced – with specialized typing rules (the type is identified by the class name; all other Modelica classes have a structural type system where the type is only defined by the public elements). Overloaded operators can only be defined inside an operator record. This change fixes a flaw in Modelica 3.1, since the look-up of overloaded operators is performed by the record class name.

    • –

      Inheritance of an operator record is allowed if defined via a short class definition. This removes a restriction of operator overloading in Modelica 3.1, e.g., to define derived classes with units for the record elements, like deriving ComplexVoltage from Complex.

    • –

      New overloaded element '0' in order that operator record classes can be used as flow variables in connectors.

  • •

    Unicode support in description strings, strings in annotations and in comments in order to improve Modelica, e.g., for Arabian, Asian or Indian users (see grammar changes in section A.1). Modelica files are UTF-8 encoded, and can start with the UTF-8 encoded byte order mark (0xef 0xbb 0xbf) to indicate that it may contain UTF-8 characters; this is treated as white-space in the grammar (see section 13.4.2).

  • •

    Constants can once again be modified unless declared final – as this is already used in packages. (See section 3.8.2).

  • •

    Global name lookup has been introduced (e.g., .Modelica.Constants.pi), see section 5.3.3.

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    New C functions ModelicaVFormatMessage and ModelicaVFormatError, to simplify message formatting in external functions (see section 12.9.6)

  • •

    Additional annotations allowing:

    • –

      Inclusion of C-header and object library files in packages and referencing them with URIs.
      (new annotations IncludeDirectory, LibraryDirectory, and standardized platform names like win32; see section 12.9.4; resolves ticket #297).

    • –

      Images in parameter dialogs (new annotation groupImage; see section 18.7).

    • –

      Start and fixed attributes for variables in parameter dialogs
      (new annotation showStartAttribute; see section 18.7).

    • –

      Access control for packages to protect intelectual property.
      (new annotations Protection, and License; see new section 18.9).

The following changes in Modelica 3.2 are not backwards compatible:

  • •

    The new built-in operator name homotopy. In rare cases this might give name clashes in existing models.

  • •

    Records with overloaded operations must be declared as operator record instead of as record. This is uncritical because tools that already support operator overloading will support the Modelica 3.1 form still for some time.

D.8.2 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.2

The initial version of functions as formal inputs to functions was proposed by Peter Fritzson.

The definition of header-files and object-libraries with the IncludeDirectory and LibraryDirectory annotations was mainly developed by Hans Olsson.

The Protection annotation used for access control is an improved version of existing annotations from Dymola. The License annotation was mainly developed by Dag Brück with improvements from Magnus Gäfvert.

The flaw in the operator overloading concept was detected by Sébastien Furic. He also proposed the basic fix, by using a nominal type system for records with overloaded operations.

The global name lookup was proposed by Stefan Vorkoetter.

The support for Unicode was initiated by Rui Gao and Hoyoun Kim.
Martin Otter, Michael Sielemann and Francesco Casella proposed homotopy. Michael Sielemann demonstrated with benchmark problems that non-linear solvers are not able to solve reliably initialization problems and that the homotopy operator is therefore needed. He provided a prototype implementation of homotopy and demonstrated its use on a vehicle dynamics example. Utilizing the prototype implementation, Francesco Casella demonstrated with a model of a thermal power plant with 390 iteration variables of the initialization problem, that an appropriate usage of homotopy allows the system to reliably initialized without providing guess values for the iteration variables. This was a strong indication that homotopy will indeed improve initialization in Modelica significantly.

The following members of the Modelica Association participated at design meetings and contributed to the Modelica 3.2 specification:

Johan Åkesson, Lund University and Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

Bernhard Bachmann, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

Jonathan Beck, Dassault Systèmes, Paris, France

Torsten Blochwitz, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

David Broman, PELAB, Linköping University, Sweden

Dag Brück, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Francesco Casella, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Mike Dempsey, Claytex Services Limited, Leamington Spa, U.K.

Karin Dietl, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Filippo Donida, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Hilding Elmqvist, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Peter Fritzson, PELAB, Linköping University, Sweden

Sébastien Furic, LMS International, Roanne. France

Manuel Gräber, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Peter Harman, deltatheta uk limited, U.K.

Anton Haumer, AIT, Vienna, Austria

Carsten Heinrich, Institut für Luft- und Kältetechnik, Dresden, Germany

Dan Henriksson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Fredrik Karlsson, PELAB, Linköping University, Sweden

Christian Kral, AIT, Vienna, Austria

Imke Krüger, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany

Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Kilian Link, Siemens AB, Erlangen, Germany

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Eric Neuber, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Hans Olsson, Dassault Systèmes, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Katrin Prölß, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Michael Sielemann, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Bernhard Thiele, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Thorben Vahlenkamp, XRG Simulation, Hamburg, Germany

Eric Thomas, Dassault Aviation, Paris, France

Michael Tiller, Emmeskay, Plymouth, MI, U.S.A

Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Stefan Vorkoetter, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland, Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

Dietmar Winkler, Telemark University College, Porsgrunn, Norway

D.8.3 Acknowledgments

Partial financial support for the development of Modelica 3.2 by the following funding agencies has been received:

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    The German Ministry BMBF has partially funded DLR, Fraunhofer and Siemens (BMBF Förderkennzeichen: 01IS07022F) within the ITEA2 project EUROSYSLIB (https://itea4.org/project/eurosyslib.html).

  • •

    The German Ministry BMBF has partially funded ITI GmbH (BMBF Förderkennzeichen: 01IS08002K), and the Swedish funding agency VINNOVA has partially funded Dynasim (2008-02291), within the ITEA2 project MODELISAR (https://itea4.org/project/modelisar.html).

  • •

    The Swedish funding agency VINNOVA has partially funded Linköping University (PELAB) within the ITEA2 project OPENPROD (https://itea4.org/project/openprod.html).

  • •

    The Swedish Research Council has partially funded Linköping University (PELAB) within the project High-Level Debugging of Equation-Based System Modeling & Simulation Languages.

  • •

    The German Ministry BMBF has partially funded FH Bielefeld (BMBF Förderkennzeichen: 01IS09029C) within the ITEA2 project OPENPROD (https://itea4.org/project/openprod.html).

D.9 Modelica 3.1

Modelica 3.1 was released on May 27, 2009. The Modelica 3.1 specification was edited by Francesco Casella, Rüdiger Franke, Hans Olsson, Martin Otter, and Michael Sielemann.

D.9.1 Main Changes in Modelica 3.1

The following backward compatible extensions have been introduced with Modelica 3.1:

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    Overloading of operators like '+' or '*' to allow convenient usage of user-defined data structures like complex numbers, polynomials, transfer functions. Usually, only scalar operations for one data type need to be overloaded. All other needed operations, like operations between different data types or on arrays of the new data type, can be automatically constructed by the tool.

  • •

    Stream connector concept to ensure efficient and reliable simulation of fluid systems.

  • •

    Partitioning models in parts and mapping these parts to execution environments. This allows convenient definition of, e.g., Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation, from the same “logical” system, by inheriting from the logical system and setting configuration options.

  • •

    Arrays in buses (expandable connector) are much better supported. Furthermore, variables declared in an expandable connector need not to be referenced in the model and are then not available in the simulation model.

  • •

    The order of classes stored in separate files can be given.

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    A restriction of balanced models was removed, so that modifiers to connector and record instances can be used and are considered for the equation count. This allows, e.g., a much easier implementation of the support connector of the Modelica.Mechanics.Rotational/Translational libraries.

  • •

    A tool that uses missingInnerMessage to give information may also automatically use the corresponding inner-component.

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    URIs can be used for links in html-documentation and for the Bitmap annotation (such as: modelica://Modelica.Mechanics/C.jpg for image C.jpg that is stored in the directory of package Modelica.Mechanics). This allows storing resources in a package on persistent storage and to reference resources via package and resource names.

  • •

    Annotation connectorSizing to automatically enlarge a vector of connectors and connect to a free element of this vector when a connection line is drawn. This allows improving the user convenience, especially for state machine and fluid models.

  • •

    Annotation inverse to define inverses of functions. This allows a tool to solve non-linear algebraic loops by using the user-provided inverse function.

  • •

    Annotations versionDate, versionBuild, dateModified, revisionId to improve version handling. For example, this allows handling of maintenance (bug-fix) releases and gives a library developer the possibility to state that a particular build is needed for a used library.

The following defects have been fixed in the Modelica specification:

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    Modifier with subscripts were previously allowed, but not clearly defined, not implemented in many tools, and not used in libraries. They were thus removed.

  • •

    Modelica keywords (section 2.3.3) updated.

  • •

    Clarification: Exponentiation and array range operator are non-associative
    (x^y^z or a:b:c:d:e:f are not allowed; parentheses are required)

  • •

    Clarification: Restrictions on combining base classes (section 4.5.2).

  • •

    Clarification: Execution of an algorithm (new section 11.1.2).

  • •

    The default type for arrays sent to external functions has been clarified.

  • •

    The iconTransformation defaults to the (diagram) transformation, as was originally the intention.

  • •

    The Connection set section was rewritten:

    • –

      Connection set is clearly defined including examples.

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      The handling of connections involving outer components was rewritten to ensure that models that seem to have the same connection structure generate the same equations from the connect-equations. Previously a connection between an outer component and an outside connector would move the connection upwards. The implication of this movement was unclear: if it turned the connector into an inside connector (as was likely the intention) it would prohibit default-connection of this normal connector leading to counter-intuitive results; and otherwise it would have no impact.

  • •

    Example of using fields was corrected.

  • •

    Example with MatrixGain was corrected.

  • •

    Ambiguous annotations after external-clause were corrected (as already used).

  • •

    The reinit operator can be used multiple times in one algorithm, and the semantics clarified.

  • •

    Made clearer that acyclic parameters also hold for one parameter equation.

  • •

    Changed in the text attributes to prefix, if a prefix is meant.

The following changes in Modelica 3.1 are not backwards compatible:

  • •

    A class-level annotation can only be placed before the closing end delimiter. This is uncritical because tools can easily fix incorrect models (ignore this new rule when reading a model and use this rule when storing the model).

  • •

    New Modelica keywords stream and operator, a new built-in package Subtask and new-built-in operators inStream and actualStream have been introduced. In rare cases this might give name clashes in existing models.

  • •

    Modifiers on declared variables in expandable connectors are no longer allowed. This should be uncritical, because expandable connectors are usually used for signal buses where the signal is communicated to the bus from a block with a connect equation.

D.9.2 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.1

The concept of operator overloading was developed by Hans Olsson, based on work of Dag Brück, Peter Fritzson, and Martin Otter.

The streams concept was developed by Rüdiger Franke based on work from Francesco Casella and with contributions especially from Hilding Elmqvist, Sven Erik Mattson, Hans Olsson, Martin Otter and Michael Sielemann.

The concept to map models to execution environments was developed by Hilding Elmqvist, Dan Henriksson, Martin Otter, Bernhard Thiele and Sven Erik Mattson.

The following members of the Modelica Association participated at design meetings and contributed to the Modelica 3.1 specification:

Johan Akesson, Lund University and Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Johan Andreasson, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

Bernhard Bachmann , University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

Torsten Blochwitz, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

David Broman, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Dag Brück, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Francesco Casella, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Christoph Clauß, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Karin Dietl, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Filippo Donida, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Thomas Doumenc, Dassault Systèmes, Paris, France

Jonas Eborn, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Rüdiger Franke, ABB Power Generation, Mannheim, Germany

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden

Magnus Gäfvert, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Manuel Gräber, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Anton Haumer, Technical Consulting & Electrical Engineering, St.Andrae-Woerdern, Austria

Carsten Heinrich, Institut für Luft- und Kältetechnik, Dresden, Germany

Dan Henriksson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Roland Kossel, TLK Thermo GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

Christian Kral, arsenal research, Vienna, Austria

Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Kilian Link, Siemens AB, Erlangen, Germany

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Ramine Nikoukhah, INRIA, Paris, France

Hans Olsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Katrin Prölß, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Christoph Richter, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Michael Sielemann, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Bernhard Thiele, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company/Emmeskay, Dearborn/Plymouth, MI, U.S.A

Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Stefan Vorkoetter, Maplesoft, Waterloo, Canada

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland, Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

Dietmar Winkler, TU Berlin, Germany

D.9.3 Acknowledgments

Partial financial support for the development of Modelica 3.1 by the following funding agencies has been received:

  • •

    The German Ministry BMBF has partially funded ABB, DLR, Fraunhofer and Siemens (BMBF Förderkennzeichen: 01IS07022F) within the ITEA2 project EUROSYSLIB (https://itea3.org/project/eurosyslib.html).

  • •

    The German Ministry BMBF has partially funded ITI GmbH (BMBF Förderkennzeichen: 01IS08002K), and the Swedish funding agency VINNOVA has partially funded Dynasim (2008-02291), within the ITEA2 project MODELISAR (https://itea3.org/project/modelisar.html).

  • •

    The Swedish funding agency VINNOVA has partially funded Linköping University (PELAB) within the project Safe and Secure Modeling and Simulation.

  • •

    The Swedish funding agency VR has partially funded Linköping University (PELAB) within the project High-Level Debugging of Equation-Based System Modeling & Simulation Languages.

D.10 Modelica 3.0

Modelica 3.0 was released Sept. 5, 2007. The Modelica 3.0 specification was edited by Peter Fritzson, Hans Olsson, and Martin Otter.

D.10.1 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 3.0

The Modelica 3.0 specification was newly structured and written by Peter Fritzson using text from the previous specification and also adding new explanatory text. This draft specification was afterwards improved by members of the Modelica Association.

The concept of balanced models (which is the major change of the language) was developed by Hans Olsson with contributions from Martin Otter, Hilding Elmqvist, and Sven Erik Mattsson. The original inspiration was from Mike Tiller.

This goes together with making the type interface and sub-typing cleaner and stricter (the new chapter 6). This concept fixes flaws of the language that have been pointed out by Sébastien Furic.

The graphical annotations have been redesigned and improved by Daniel Hedberg, Erik Areskog, Dag Brück, and Hilding Elmqvist with contributions from Peter Aronsson and Gerd Kurzbach.

The following members of the Modelica Association participated at design meetings and contributed to the Modelica 3.0 specification:

Peter Aronsson, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

Bernhard Bachmann , University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

John Batteh, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

David Broman, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Peter Bunus, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Dag Brück, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Francesco Casella, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Christoph Clauß, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Thomas Doumenc, Dassault Systèmes, Paris, France

Jonas Eborn, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Rüdiger Franke, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden

Sebastien Furic, Imagine, Roanne, France

Anton Haumer, Technical Consulting & Electrical Engineering, St.Andrae-Woerdern, Austria

Daniel Hedberg, MathCore AB, Linköping, Sweden

Carsten Heinrich, Institut für Luft- und Kältetechnik gGmbH, Dresden, Germany

Olof Johansson, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Christian Kral, arsenal research, Vienna, Austria

Roland Kossel, TLK Thermo GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

Gerd Kurzbach, ITI GmbH, Dresden, Germany

Christian Kral, arsenal research, Vienna, Austria

Kilian Link, Siemens AB, Erlangen, Germany

José Diaz Lopez, Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden

Karin Lund, Fachhochschule Ulm, Germany

Håkan Lundvall, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Ludwig Marvan, VA TECH ELIN EBG Elektronik GmbH & Co, Vienna, Austria

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Jakob Mauss, Qtronic GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Chuck Newman, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Kaj Nyström, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Hans Olsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Markus Plainer, Arsenal Research, Vienna, Austria

Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Katrin Prölß, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Christoph Richter, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Anders Sandholm, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Christian Schweiger, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company/Emmeskay, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A

Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland Ltd.,Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

D.10.2 Main Changes in Modelica 3.0

Modelica 3.0 is a “clean-up” version of the Modelica language. For example, the specification is newly written to define the language in a better way, errors in the language are fixed, unclear or undefined items are more precisely described, and mild restrictions are introduced into the language in order that a Modelica translator can much earlier and more precisely detect modeling errors. Automated conversion of models to Modelica 3.0 is possible. Furthermore, a tool can potentially handle much larger models.

This Modelica version is for the first time (slightly) not backward compatible to previous versions (all previous versions have been backward compatible with exception of tiny issues as newly introduced keywords). As a result, e.g., “unsafe” models of previous Modelica versions are no longer valid. It is expected that Modelica tool vendors provide (semi-) automatic mechanisms for conversion of models and libraries.

The following main changes in Modelica 3.0 are not backwards compatible:

  • •

    Restrictions to connectors (see section 9.3): For each non-partial connector class the number of flow variables shall be equal to the number of variables that are neither parameter, constant, input, output, nor flow. For example, the following connector is illegal in Modelica 3:

    ⬇
    connector notValid // illegal connector
      Real r1;
      Real r2;
      flow Real r3;
    end notValid;
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    In a non-partial model or block, all non-connector inputs of model or block components must have binding equations.

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    A component declared with the inner or outer prefix shall not be of a class having top-level public connectors containing inputs.

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    Modifiers for components shall only contain redeclarations of replaceable elements and binding equations for parameters, constants, inputs and variables having a default binding equation.

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    All non-partial model and block classes must be locally balanced (see section 4.7). This means that the local number of unknowns equals the local equation size. Together with other restrictions, this leads to the strong property that a simulation model is always globally balanced (i.e., the number of unknowns is equal to the number of equations).

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    Prefixes input, output, inner, outer, flow are not allowed in a record

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    The built-in operators abs and sign do no longer generate events but are implicitly defined with a noEvent operator.

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    The constraining-clause of a replaceable class or component is changed from keyword extends to the new keyword constrainedby (since the extends keyword could lead to the wrong impression that the redeclared model must inherit from the constraining class, but this is not the case).

  • •

    The isPresent construct, which was not implemented in tools, was removed.

The following changes in the Modelica 3.0 graphical annotations are also not backwards compatible:

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    Changed the definition of icon placement (record Transformation), so that the actual coordinates of the icon of a model instance are defined in the class where the instance is defined and no longer in the class where the icon is defined (this was a flaw in the Modelica 2.0 graphical annotations).

  • •

    Improved the definition of the rotation of a graphical primitive.

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    Change fontSize unit from DrawingUnit to pt (since this is the usual unit for fonts).

The following main changes in Modelica 3.0 are backwards compatible:

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    New element-wise operators: .+, .-, .*, ./, .^.

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    A third argument AssertionLevel to built-in function assert(…) in order that warnings can optionally be defined.

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    New annotations section 18.1:
    In this section it is precisely defined how vendor-specific annotations should be marked. Any tool shall save files with all standard annotations (defined in chapter 18) and all vendor-specific annotations intact. The advantage is that a typo in non-vendor annotations can now be detected and marked as an error, whereas in previous versions this had to be ignored.

  • •

    New annotation in section 18.2:
    preferredView = info, diagram or text

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    New annotations in section 12.8, section 12.7, and section 18.3:
    Evaluate, HideResult, Inline, LateInline, smoothOrder

  • •

    New annotation annotation 18.2:
    StartTime, StopTime, Tolerance to define important parameters of an experiment setup.

  • •

    New annotations for graphical annotations in section 18.6:
    New attribute Smooth = enumeration(None, Bezier) for graphical objects and connection lines (Bezier defines a Bezier spline).
    New attribute visible in record Placement allows making a graphical annotation invisible (e.g., after inheritance).
    New attributes startAngle, endAngle in record ellipse to define part of an ellipse.
    New layer specific annotations IconMap and DiagramMap for extends.
    New attribute horizontalAlignment to the Text record to define the horizontal alignment of text.

  • •

    New annotations for schematic animation and interactive user input in section 18.6:
    DynamicSelect to modify annotation literals by the actual values of variables.
    OnMouseDownSetBoolean, OnMouseUpSetBoolean, OnMouseMoveXSetReal, OnMouseMoveYSetReal, OnMouseDownEditReal, OnMouseDownEditString to interactively set the variable of a class during simulation.

The following errors have been fixed in the Modelica specification:

  • •

    Syntax rule for a function call (e.g., according to the grammar in Modelica 2.2 a function call of the form Modelica.Math.Matrices.eig(…) was invalid because the function name could not have ‘.’. However, all Modelica tools supported the desired “full Modelica name” also for function calls).

D.11 Modelica 2.2

Modelica 2.2 was released February 2, 2005. The Modelica 2.2 specification was edited by Hans Olsson, Michael Tiller and Martin Otter.

D.11.1 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 2.2

Bernhard Bachmann , University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

John Batteh, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Dag Brück, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Francesco Casella, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Christoph Clauß, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Jonas Eborn, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Rüdiger Franke, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden

Anton Haumer, Technical Consulting & Electrical Engineering, St.Andrae-Woerdern, Austria

Christian Kral, arsenal research, Vienna, Austria

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Chuck Newman, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Hans Olsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Markus Plainer, Arsenal Research, Vienna, Austria

Adrian Pop, Linköping University, Sweden

Katrin Prölß, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

André Schneider, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Christian Schweiger, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon AB, Lund, Sweden

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland Ltd.,Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

D.11.2 Main Changes in Modelica 2.2

The main changes in Modelica 2.2 are:

  • •

    Conditional component declarations to ignore component declarations depending on a parameter expression. Connection equations that reference a component that is no longer present, are ignored.

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    In redeclarations some parts of the original declaration are automatically inherited by the new declaration. This is intended to make it easier to write declarations by not having to repeat common parts of the declarations, and does in particular apply to attributes that must be identical.

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    Recursive inner/outer definitions to define hierarchically structured inner/outer declarations that can communicate with each other: An element declared with both the prefixes inner and outer conceptually introduces two declarations with the same name, one that follows the rules for inner and another that follows the rules for outer.

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    A non-input array component declared in a function with a dimension size specified by colon (:) and no declaration assignment, can change size in the function in a simple and convenient way.

  • •

    A new type of connector, called expandable connector was introduced. This connector has less strict requirements about name matching of connected connectors and can be used conveniently in situations that required replaceable connectors previously. One main application area is to construct signal buses of complex systems.

  • •

    The derivative operator der(expr) may have an expression as argument and not only a variable name as previously, e.g., der(m*h) is interpreted as der(m)*h + m*der(h).

  • •

    A function can be defined as partial derivative of another function, e.g.:

  • •

    ”function Gibbs_T = der(Gibbs,T)” is a function that computes the partial derivative of function Gibbs with respect to its input argument T.

  • •

    External functions may have the new attribute "builtin", additionally to "C" or "FORTRAN 77". The "builtin" specification is only used for functions that are defined to be built-in in the Modelica language. The external function call mechanism for "builtin" functions is implementation-defined.

The language changes are backward compatible.

D.12 Modelica 2.1

Modelica 2.1 was released January 30, 2004. The Modelica 2.1 specification was edited by Hans Olsson and Martin Otter.

D.12.1 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 2.1

Mikael Adlers, MathCore, Linköping, Sweden

Peter Aronsson, Linköping University, Sweden

Bernhard Bachmann , University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany

Peter Bunus, Linköping University, Sweden

Jonas Eborn, United Technologies Research Center, Hartford, U.S.A.

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Rüdiger Franke, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden

Anton Haumer, Technical Consulting & Electrical Engineering, St.Andrae-Woerdern, Austria

Olof Johansson, Linköping University, Sweden

Karin Lunde, R.O.S.E. Informatik GmbH, Heidenheim, Germany

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Hans Olsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Levon Saldamli, Linköping University, Sweden

Christian Schweiger, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Hubertus Tummescheit, United Technologies Research Center, Hartford, U.S.A.

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland Ltd.,Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

D.12.2 Main Changes in Modelica 2.1

The main changes in Modelica 2.1 are:

  • •

    Arrays and array indices of Enumerations (needed, e.g., in the Electrical.Digital library currently under development).

  • •

    Connections into hierarchical connectors (needed, e.g., for convenient implementation of buses).

  • •

    Optional output arguments of Modelica functions. The presence of actual input and/or output arguments can be inquired with the new built-in function isPresent. The previous built-in function and attribute enable was removed.

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    Making the default constraining type more useful by inheriting the base constraining type automatically to modifications.

  • •

    Enhanced redeclaration as needed, e.g., in the Modelica.Media library under development (e.g., redeclare model name or model extends name (<modifications>)).

  • •

    Handling of overdetermined connectors (needed, e.g., for multi-body systems and electrical power systems) including the new built-in package Connections with operators Connections.branch, Connections.root, Connections.potentialRoot, Connections.isRoot.

  • •

    Statement break in the while-statement of an algorithm section.

  • •

    Statement return in a Modelica function.

  • •

    Built-in function String to provide a string representation of Boolean, Integer, Real and enumeration types.

  • •

    Built-in function Integer to provide the Integer representation of an enumeration type.

  • •

    Built-in function semiLinear to define a characteristics with two slopes and a set of rules for symbolic transformations, especially when the function becomes underdetermined (this function is used in the Modelica Fluid library under development to define reversing flow in a mathematically clean way).

  • •

    More general identifiers by having any character in single quotes, e.g., '+' or ’123.456#1’ are valid identifiers. 'x' and x are different identifiers. This is useful for a direct mapping of product identifiers to model names and for having the usual symbols for digital electrical signals as enumerations (such as '+', '-', '0', '1').

  • •

    New annotations:

    • –

      For version handling of libraries and models (version, uses, conversion),

    • –

      for revision logging (revisions),

    • –

      for using a Modelica name as link in a HTML documentation text,

    • –

      for convenient inner declaration in a GUI (defaultComponentName, defaultComponentPrefixes),

    • –

      for parameter menu structuring (Dialog, enable, tab, group), and

    • –

      for library specific error messages (missingInnerMessage, unassignedMessage).

Fixing some minor errors in the grammar and semantic specification.

The language changes are backward compatible, except for the introduction of the new keywords break and return, the new built-in package Connections and the removing of built-in function and attribute enable.

D.13 Modelica 2.0

Modelica 2.0 was released January, 30 2002, and the draft was released on December 18 in 2001. The Modelica 2.0 specification was edited by Hans Olsson. Modelica is a registered trademark owned by the Modelica Association since November 2001.

D.13.1 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 2.0

Peter Aronsson, Linköping University, Sweden

Bernhard Bachmann , University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld

Peter Beater, University of Paderborn, Germany

Dag Brück, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Peter Bunus, Linköping University, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Vadim Engelson, Linköping University, Sweden

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden

Rüdiger Franke, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg

Pavel Grozman, Equa, Stockholm, Sweden

Johan Gunnarsson, MathCore, Linköping

Mats Jirstrand, MathCore, Linköping

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Hans Olsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Levon Saldamli, Linköping University, Sweden

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Hubertus Tummescheit, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Switzerland Ltd.,Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

D.13.2 Main Changes in Modelica 2.0

A detailed description of the enhancements introduced by Modelica 2.0 is given in the papers

The main changes in Modelica 2.0 are:

  • •

    Full specification of initialization in order to compute consistent initial values of all variables appearing in a model before performing an operation, such as simulation or linearization.

  • •

    Specified the graphical appearance of Modelica object diagrams, thereby ensuring portability of model topology information and improving the previous informal graphical description, e.g., with separate icon and diagram positions.

  • •

    Enumeration types to allow the definition of options and properties in an understandable, safe and efficient way.

  • •

    Support for (optional) explicit preference in state-selection in order that a modeler can incorporate application specific knowledge to guide the solution process, e.g., for real-time simulation.

  • •

    Iterators in array constructors and reduction operators, to support more powerful expressions, especially in declarations, in order to avoid inconvenient and less efficient local function definitions.

  • •

    Support for generic formulation of blocks applicable to both scalar and vector connectors, connection of (automatically) vectorized blocks, and simpler input/output connectors. This allows significant simplifications of the input/output block library of Modelica, e.g., since only scalar versions of all blocks have to be provided. Furthermore, new library components can be incorporated more easily.

  • •

    Record constructor to allow, e.g., the construction of data sheet libraries.

  • •

    Functions with mixed positional and named arguments. Optional results and default arguments make the same function fit for beginners and expert users.

  • •

    Additional utilities for external C functions that are interfaced to Modelica models, especially supporting external functions returning strings and external functions with internal memory (e.g., to interface user-defined tables, property databases, sparse matrix handling, hardware interfaces).

  • •

    Added an index, and specification of some basic constructs that had previously not formally be defined, such as while-clauses, if-clauses.

The language changes are backward compatible, except for the introduction of the new keyword enumeration and the removal of the operator analysisType. The library change of the block library which will become available soon requires changes in user-models.

D.14 Modelica 1.4

Modelica 1.4 was released December 15, 2000. The Modelica Association was formed in Feb. 5, 2000 and is now responsible for the design of the Modelica language. The Modelica 1.4 specification was edited by Hans Olsson and Dag Brück.

D.14.1 Contributors to the Modelica Language, Version 1.4

Bernhard Bachmann, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany

Peter Bunus, MathCore, Linköping, Sweden

Dag Brück, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Vadim Engelson, Linköping University, Sweden

Jorge Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Pavel Grozman, Equa, Stockholm, Sweden

Johan Gunnarsson, MathCore, Linköping, Sweden

Mats Jirstrand, MathCore, Linköping, Sweden

Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar, Germany

Pontus Lidman, MathCore, Linköping, Sweden

Sven Erik Mattsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Hans Olsson, Dynasim, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Tommy Persson, Linköping University, Sweden

Levon Saldamli, Linköping University, Sweden

André Schneider, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Hubertus Tummescheit, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Hans-Jürg Wiesmann, ABB Corporate Research Ltd., Baden, Switzerland

D.14.2 Contributors to the Modelica Standard Library

Peter Beater, University of Paderborn, Germany

Christoph Clauß, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Martin Otter, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

André Schneider, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Hubertus Tummescheit, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

D.14.3 Main Changes in Modelica 1.4

  • •

    Removed declare-before-use rule. This simplifies graphical user environments, because there exists no order of declarations when components are graphically composed together.

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    Refined package concept by introducing encapsulated classes and import mechanism. Encapsulated classes can be seen as “self-contained units”: When copying or moving an encapsulated class, at most the import-clauses in this class have to be changed.

  • •

    Refined when-clause: The nondiscrete keyword is removed, equations in when-clauses must have a unique variable name on left hand side variable and the exact mapping of when-clauses to equations is defined. As a result, when-clauses are now precisely defined without referring to a sorting algorithm and it is possible to handle algebraic loops between when-clauses with different conditions and between when-clauses and the continuous-time part of a model. The discrete keyword is now optional, simplifying the library development because only one type of connector is needed and not several types which do contain or do not contain the discrete prefix on variables. Additionally, when-clauses in algorithm sections may have elsewhen-clauses which simplifies the definition of priorities between when-clauses.

  • •

    For replaceable declarations: allowed constraining-clause, and annotations listing suitable redeclarations. This allows a graphical user environment to automatically build menus with meaningful choices.

  • •

    Functions can specify their derivative. This allows, e.g., the application of the Pantelides algorithm to reduce the index of a DAE also for external functions.

  • •

    New built-in operator rem (remainder) and the built-in operators div, mod, ceil, floor, integer, previously only allowed to be used in when-clauses can now be used everywhere, because state events are automatically generated when the result value of one of these operator changes discontinuously.

  • •

    Quantity attribute also for base types Boolean, Integer, String (and not only for Real), in order to allow abstracted variables to refer to physical quantities (e.g., Boolean i(quantity="Current") is true if current is flowing and is false if no current is flowing).

  • •

    final keyword also allowed in declaration, to prevent modification. Example:

⬇
model A
  Real x[:];
  final Integer n=size(x,1);
end A;
  • •

    Several minor enhancements, such as usage of dot-notation in modifications
    (e.g., A x(B.C=1, B.D=2) is the same as A x(B(C=1, D=2))).

  • •

    Internally restructured specification.

Modelica 1.4 is backwards compatible with Modelica 1.3, with the exception of (1) some exotic cases where different results are achieved with the removed “declare-before-use-rule” and the previous declaration order, (2) when-clauses in equations sections, which use the general form expr1 = expr2 (now only v = expr is allowed + some special cases for functions), (3) some exotic cases where a when-clause may be no longer evaluated at the initial time, because the initialization of the when-condition is now defined in a more meaningful way (before Modelica 1.4, every condition in a when-clause has a “previous” value of false), and (4) models containing the nondiscrete keyword which was removed.

D.15 Modelica 1.3 and Older Versions.

Modelica 1.3 was released December 15, 1999.

D.15.1 Contributors up to Modelica 1.3

The following list contributors and their affiliations at the time when Modelica 1.3 was released.

Hilding Elmqvist, Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden

Bernhard Bachmann, ABB Corporate Research Center Heidelberg

Francois Boudaud, Gaz de France, Paris, France

Jan Broenink, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

Dag Brück, Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden

Thilo Ernst, GMD FIRST, Berlin, Germany

Ruediger Franke, ABB Network Partner Ltd. Baden, Switzerland

Peter Fritzson, Linköping University, Sweden

Alexandre Jeandel, Gaz de France, Paris, France

Pavel Grozman, Bris Data AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Kaj Juslin, VTT, Espoo, Finland

David Kågedal, Linköping University, Sweden

Mattias Klose, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Nathalie Loubere, Gaz de France, Paris, France

Sven-Erik Mattsson, Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden

Peter J. Mosterman, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Henrik Nilsson, Linköping University, Sweden

Hans Olsson, , Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden

Martin Otter, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Per Sahlin, Bris Data AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Andrée Schneider, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Dresden, Germany

Michael Tiller, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.

Hubertus Tummescheit, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Hans Vangheluwe, University of Gent, Belgium

D.15.2 Main Changes in Modelica 1.3

Modelica 1.3 was released December 15, 1999.

  • •

    Defined connection semantics for inner/outer connectors.

  • •

    Defined semantics for protected element.

  • •

    Defined that least variable variability prefix wins.

  • •

    Improved semantic definition of array expressions.

  • •

    Defined scope of for-loop variables.

D.15.3 Main Changes in Modelica 1.2

Modelica 1.2 was released June 15, 1999.

  • •

    Changed the external function interface to give greater flexibility.

  • •

    Introduced inner/outer for dynamic types.

  • •

    Redefined final keyword to only restrict further modification.

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    Restricted redeclaration to replaceable elements.

  • •

    Defined semantics for if-clauses.

  • •

    Defined allowed code optimizations.

  • •

    Refined the semantics of event-handling.

  • •

    Introduced fixed and nominal attributes.

  • •

    Introduced terminate and analysisType.

D.15.4 Main Changes in Modelica 1.1

Modelica 1.1 was released in December 1998.

Major changes:

  • •

    Specification as a separate document from the rationale.

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    Introduced prefixes discrete and nondiscrete.

  • •

    Introduced pre and when.

  • •

    Defined semantics for array expressions.

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    Introduced built-in functions and operators (only connect was present in Modelica 1.0).

D.15.5 Modelica 1.0

Modelica 1, the first version of Modelica, was released in September 1997, and had the language specification as a short appendix to the rationale.