Designing the connector MassPort

• Flow variable dm:
  • the value of the flow
  • Flow component computes dm
  • Reservoir integrates dm to get its state variable m
• Potential variable data:
  • information about state of a Reservoir
  • Flow uses it to compute dm
• Input/output variable info:
  • integer to tell what to do with data
  • three possibilites
    • ignore data
    • set flow to data
    • limit flow by data
  • output at Reservoir, input at Flow → two variants MassPortR, MassPortF
• Simple alternative:
  • no flow or potential variables at all
  • dm is input/output from Flow to Reservoir
  • data is input/output from Reservoir to Flow