Modeling the Thermal Behavior of Biosphere 2
in a Non-Controlled Environment Using Bond Graphs
Keywords
- Ecological Systems
- Object-Oriented Modeling
- Bond Graphs
- Quantitative Simulation
Abstract
Biosphere 2 is a closed ecological system of high complexity built to deepen the
understanding of ecological systems, to study the dynamics of closed ecologies,
and to learn to control their behavior. The use of modeling and simulation is
crucial in the achievement of these goals. Understanding a physical system is
almost synonymous with possessing a model of its comportment.
The main goal of this study is the development of a dynamic bond graph model
that represents the thermal behavior of the complex ecological system under
study, Biosphere2. In this work, a first model that captures the behavior of
the ecological system in a non-controlled environment is presented.
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