matGasFlow is a MATLAB Software for steady-state gas flow calculation in gas transport and distribution grids.
matGasFlow works for MATLAB > R2019b.
Take a look at .\Examples\main_example.m
Documentation is being prepared.
matGasFlow is distributed as open-source under the BSD 3-Clause License. See LICENSE file for more information.
See CITATION file for more information.
Primary developer:
- Marcel Kurth
Other Contributors:
- Marie-Sophie Heidi Braun
- Andreas Rhein
- Sarah Nesti
- Paul Maximilian Röhrig
- Andreas Blank
We request that publications derived from the use of matGasFlow, or the included data files, explicitly acknowledge that fact by citing the software, dissertation, or paper as follows:
Marcel Kurth (2024). matGasFlow (Version 1.0) [Software]. Institute for
High Voltage Equipment and Grids, Digitalization and Energy
Economics (IAEW), RWTH Aachen University. Available:
https://github.com/RWTH-IAEW/matGasFlow
Marcel Kurth, "Blending Hydrogen into Natural Gas Networks - Assessing
Gas Model Inaccuracies and Improving Steady-State Gas Flow
Calculation Methods". Doctoral Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, 2024
Kurth, Marcel; Braun, Marie-Sophie Heidi; Ulbig, Andreas: "Impact of
Substituting Hydrogen for Natural Gas on Compressor Station
Operation in Gas Networks". In: 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid
Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe). IEEE. 2023
In the interest of facilitating research reproducibility and thereby increasing the value of your matGasFlow-related research publications, we encourage you to publish, whenever possible, the code and data required to generate the results you are publishing.
matGasFlow contains content from GasLib (see comp_model_GasLib.m):
Pfetsch et al. (2012) "Validation of Nominations in Gas Network
Optimization: Models, Methods, and Solutions", ZIB-Report 12-41
matGasFlow contains an implementation of the AGA8-92DC model, published in:
DIN ISO EN 20765-1:2018 Natural gas - Calculation of thermodynamic
properties - Part 1: Gas phase properties for transmission and
distribution applications; German version
matGasFlow contains an example of a pandapipes network (see Example_gas_network_pandapipes_v0-1-2.json):
Lohmeier, D.; Cronbach, D.; Drauz, S.R.; Braun, M.; Kneiske, T.M.
Pandapipes: An Open-Source Piping Grid Calculation Package for
Multi-Energy Grid Simulations. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9899.
Contact Marcel Kurth: marcel.kurth@rwth-aachen.de