Hi, we are working on a novel method to measure blood glucose non-invasively (see: diamontech.com). We are using a new kind of tunable laser (quantum-cascade-laser) to specifically heat up glucose molecules in the skin. We have a working prototype and start miniaturizing the whole system right now.<p>In order to expedite testing of different hypothesis we'd like to simulate our whole system with all its components (optics, electronics, thermal, mechanical, in best case even sample/skin) and I was wondering what is the best approach. Commercial simulation software like Zemax, Matlab/Simulink, Solidworks seem to focus on only one subset and it's complicated to string them together. Then there are some python-libs of different quality levels to support simulations. And I found modelica, which seems to be a good candidate, but I don't know anybody who has actually used it.<p>Are there any best practices? Any advice?<p>Thanks, Thorsten
Tools like these are usually highly specialized as you say. I think you will need to do quite a bit of wrangling to get what you want. Wish you the best.