Hierarchical Structural Analysis Method for Complex Equation-Oriented Models

Chao Wang, Li Wan, Tifan Xiong, Yuanlong Xie, Shuting Wang, Jianwan Ding and Liping Chen
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Chao Wang: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Li Wan: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Tifan Xiong: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Yuanlong Xie: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Shuting Wang: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Jianwan Ding: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Liping Chen: School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 21, 1-26

Abstract: Structural analysis is a method for verifying equation-oriented models in the design of industrial systems. Existing structural analysis methods need flattening of the hierarchical models into an equation system for analysis. However, the large-scale equations in complex models make structural analysis difficult. Aimed to address the issue, this study proposes a hierarchical structural analysis method by exploring the relationship between the singularities of the hierarchical equation-oriented model and its components. This method obtains the singularity of a hierarchical equation-oriented model by analyzing a dummy model constructed with the parts from the decomposing results of its components. Based on this, the structural singularity of a complex model can be obtained by layer-by-layer analysis according to their natural hierarchy. The hierarchical structural analysis method can reduce the equation scale in each analysis and achieve efficient structural analysis of very complex models. This method can be adaptively applied to nonlinear-algebraic and differential-algebraic equation models. The main algorithms, application cases and comparison with the existing methods are present in this paper. The complexity analysis results show the enhanced efficiency of the proposed method in the structural analysis of complex equation-oriented models. Compared with the existing methods, the time complexity of the proposed method is improved significantly.

Keywords: equation-oriented models; model check; structural analysis; nonlinear-algebraic equation model; differential-algebraic equation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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