Request to add PhotoVoltaics library as systems library to OpenModelica

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

In a recent project I developed the PhotoVoltaics libarary together with a group of students. The library is hosted on ​https://github.com/christiankral/PhotoVoltaics

One main goal of this library was, that most examples work with OpenModelica. Thanks to your support in #4222, finally all example models work in OpenModelica.

We are about to release version 1.0.0 soon. The library components are tested and validated by measuring data in the package PhotoVoltaics_TGM. On my opinion it were mutually beneficial to have the PhotoVoltaics pacakge and the PhotoVoltaics_TGM package included in OpenModelica.

[Martin Sjölund]

They already are part of OM: ​https://github.com/OpenModelica/OMLibraries/commit/7ef0f48c4e5f8fcf4321fbc8f75091649e2aabec (apt install omlib-photovoltaics-tgm pulls in PhotoVoltaics and Buildings).

If they are missing in other distributions (Windows for example), add a note and Adeel can update the script.

[Martin Sjölund]

You can also see our coverage testing of the library:

• ​comparison of different OM versions covering the library
• ​details for the current OM

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

Thanks for the link and for including the library.

As I understand, you are including the actual master version of the PhotoVoltaics (and other libraries on GitHub)? I regularly create new versions (tags on GitHub), because I try to make simulation applications as reproducible as possible. I have thus one more question: Is it possible that you use the latest release version (tag) instead of the master version? Or shall I provide a default branch different to master (something like "the latest release" branch as default branch)?

[Martin Sjölund]

I can change our repository to follow a release branch instead of the master if you prefer

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

I created the branches "release" for these GitHub repositories:

• PhotoVoltaics
• KeyWordIO
• WindPowerPlants

Please follow the release branches when including library versions in OpenModelica. Thanks a lot in advance.

May also ask you to include the library ElectroMechanicalDrives which I recently added to GitHub. The actual version v0.12.0 is also placed in a "release" branch (​https://github.com/christiankral/ElectroMechanicalDrives/tree/release). The ElectroMechanicalDrives package is intended to model and simulate electric vehicles (cars, trains) including a simplified drive cycle, power train, power electronics, battery. I know that I have to improve the documentation, but its already quite stable and most examples are simulating in OpenModelica. I am using this library a lot in teaching at my college of engineering, where I exclusively use OpenModelica.

[Martin Sjölund]

Done

[Christian Kral <dr.christian.kral@…>]

Thanks a lot.