Port-based physical system modeling

Chapter 1 closely reviews the model development process. After a formal foundation of bond graphs, principles and fundamental concepts of port-based physical systems modelling in terms of bond graphs are pointed out and are discussed in a clarifying way that may help avoid model developers to fall into traps, to overlook assumptions and the context dependency of models, or to mix concepts which may give rise to confusions, e.g. with regard to ideal concepts and physical components. A key issue of Chapter 1 is that it emphasises the distinction between configuration structure, physical stiucture, and conceptual structure. 

Port-Based Physical System Modeling 1.5.1 Introduction... 

Breedveld P.C. (2009) Port-based modeling of dynamic systems. Chapter 1 and appendix A and B2. In Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems - The Port-Hamiltonian Approach, StramigioU S., MaccheUi A., Duindam V, Bruyninckx H. (eds). Springer, Berlin, pp. 1-52, 97-311, 323-328. 

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