Automatic way of creating .bcli Files

[OAbele]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently trying to write an application that uses WUFI in a rudimentary Model Predictive Control Setup (MPC) setup. To do this, I need to be able to stop my simulation at some timestamps, run some analysis on the simulation result and then continue my simulation while changing some simulation parameters. Since this should happen automatically, I want to do all this without using the WUFI 2D GUI.

I've already figured out how to change the parameters I need to change within my project's input files. I can also create initial condition definitions out of prior WUFI result files and use those to stop and continue my simulations.

The one thing that is still giving me trouble are the .bcli files that are used for the simulation. My first idea to change the start point of a simulation was to change the starting date within my project's input file, but this seemed to not change my simulation results in any way. This lead me to the conclusion that .bcli files already contain the information about the simulation's starting point and that I need to swap out the .bcli files for every timestamp I want to restart my simulation at.

For this reason I have two questions:
1.: Is there a way to create .bcli files for a specific starting point without using the WUFI GUI?

2.: Is there a way to open and read the information of my .bcli files? If I can not automatically create .bcli files for every timestamp I need to create them in advance. Being able to read them would help me to at least double check if the files are correct (since I've ran into problems where WUFI just re-used an old .bcli file from its cache before).

I hope that I described my problem well enough,
Thanks in advance
Best regards,
Oliver

[Christian Bludau]

Hi Oliver,

the bcli-Files are binary, as we are not allowed to give out the data for the climates for many external climate files. Therefore you can not view or manipulate them outside of WUFI. The only option is to generate these files in advance.

Christian