Subject: Electrical Flow

Posted by Niall Palfreyman on 3/11/2004

Message:

Hi,

At the moment I'm playing around with electrical circuits in Stella, and I have a particular situation which I wish to represent as a stock and flow diagram, but which presents some difficulties. I _can_ represent the situation, but I'd like to know if anyone has a simpler representation.

The simplest example of what I'm thinking of is the situation where a river divides in two: water enters the junction and, say, two-thirds flow on along one channel, and one third flow down the other channel.
The junction is sort of like a stock with one inflow and two outflows, but this stock is not allowed to accumulate at all, so all water is passed on as soon as it arrives. Is there maybe some special sort of stock which does this, or is there maybe some interesting coflow configuration I could use to represent this?

Thanks,
Niall.

Follow Ups:

Electrical Flow - Bill Barroway 3/11/2004