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HumMod - Large Scale Physiological Models in Modelica

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2011

Abstract

Modelica is being used more and more in industrial applications, but Modelica is still not used as much in biomedical applications. For a long time we have mostly been using Matlab/Simulink models, made by Mathworks, for the development of models of physiological systems.

Recently, we have been using a simulation environment based on the Modelica language. In this language, we implemented a large scale model of interconnected physiological subsystems containing thousands of variables.

Model is a richly hierarchically structured, easily modifiable, and “self-documenting”. Modelica allows a much clearer than other simulation environments, to express the physiological nature of the modeled reality.