This video starts a new series focused on the creation of digital twins of office equipment (those sometimes irritating elephants in the room). In this first instalment we start-from-scratch by closely observing their sub-minutely performance. We look for patterns and find they rarely enter a low energy state. We find surface temperatures and exhaust air streams that few staff would want to spend time near - but our tools don’t give us fair warning of this.
We open them up and discover that they are no less complex than the buildings they are installed in. The approaches I (and most simulation teams) use are largely oblivious to this complexity. Instead of abstractions without form or mass or position and look-up tables and polynomials in this series we explore options for treating them as dynamic fully coupled entities and leverage the full force of multiple domain solvers.
The next video in the series will explore implementing options - what gets included, what we choose to exclude, levels of detail and how we convert patterns of input power into surface temperatures and air streams that approximate what we observed.
24 май 2023
