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The flow connected to the stock port (stockPort) will be split or broken into n = nout flows. This is a rather generic component, so that the input vector u of weights or factors may add up to 1 (the flow is split into n components that in sum will match the aggregate flow) or not.

When the factors do not add up to 1, the structure can be used to describe some kind of multiple-production from one main effort, e.g., the flow of work hours per period may be used to produce n products according to a productivity ratio ( products per work hour ).

Notes

• Unlike the model published by Jim Hines [6, p. 17] the SplitFlow component is more general and also allows a bidirectional flow being connected to stockPort. If a negative rate at stockPort splits an inflow to a stock, then several stocks connected to flowPort will be drained.


• The component will observe the stopInflow and stopOutflow signals at its flowPort, so that if any of these are true, the corresponding signal will be set to true at the stockPort side.

See also

ProportionalSplitFactors, BrokenTransition, BrokenTransitionPull

weights	Value: ones(nout) Type: Real[nout] Description: Constant weights for splitting (optional)
nout	Value: 2 Type: Integer Description: Number of flows to split into
hasConstantWeights	Value: false Type: Boolean Description: = true, if the weights are constant parameters
isSplit	Value: true Type: Boolean Description: = true, if the input given is assumed to be weights (adding up to one) splitting the flow
shiftInputs	Value: false Type: Boolean Description: = true, if all values are to be shifted to prevent negative inputs, otherwise negative inputs are simply set to zero (proportionalSplitFactors.shiftInputs)