Modelling and Simulation

Introduces the methods and techniques of model building skills and the use of the SIMULINK package for dynamic modelling. Topics covered are - purposes, uses & benefits of system modelling: model development; empirical and first principles models, steady state and dynamic models, time domain solutions, model validation: modelling techniques; lumped parameter models, absolute & deviation variables, linearisation: models of process systems; hydrodynamic, multistage, reacting, multivariable, distributed parameter, discrete event: transfer function models; block diagram representation, modelling of control loop elements, integration of process & control models: simulation; continuous system simulation, selection of numerical integration routines, discrete event simulation, functional testing.

Practical work consists of exercises based on the use of the SIMULINK dynamic simulation package. [details]