This paper describes the Design of Experiments approach used in the Mentor Graphics 1D thermo-fluid simulation software Flowmaster V7 to address the issue providing simulation results in real-time.
Mentor Graphics has collaborated with EnginSoft in order to implement the creation of Response Surface models within the Flowmaster GUI.
This framework allows for the creation of meta-models of a full simulation model to be exported as C code or as MATLAB™ S-Functions suitable for use in a HIL environment or as the backend code to a runtime model of the system.
The latter when implemented as a portable runtime version with a dashboard interface provides a useful tool allowing non-experts to review the results of a simulation model analysis and understand a system’s behavior more easily.