Use PyFMI to support dynamic models made with other tools about andes HOT 1 OPEN

Thanks for the suggestion.

Back in 2016, I met with GridDyn's author and talked using FMI to link with the OpenIPSL library. It is a non-trivial task especially when the tool is developed in C++ (like GridDyn or Dynawo). At that point, the GridDyn's FMI interface was still a work in progress. I hope it has gotten more mature.

In 2017, I thought of developing a lightweight Python-based tool to use OpenIPSL models based on FMPy. I had an undergrad student helper but didn't manage to get anywhere close. As of now, integrating with FMI for Andes would look like repeating what Dynawo has been doing.

I thought of building a dynawo-alike tool in Julia. The justification is that Julia is very efficient to call external C library. However, the JuliaFMI library is not mature.

Anyway, FMI is great standard for model exchange and co-sim. I plan to explore FMI for Andes on the holidays.

FMPy: https://github.com/CATIA-Systems/FMPy
JuliaFMI: https://github.com/fmi-tools/JuliaFMI

from andes.