Problem with fluid splitter

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Oscar C13 asked Feb 11, '22 Felix Möhlmann edited Feb 11, '22

Problem with fluid splitter

Hello,
I have a model with a fluid splitter. One of the tanks is closed until further notice. So I want only fluid to be sent to the other, but the fluid splitter wants compensate for the outflow and only tries to send the one that is closed. Any idea to fix that?
Thanks.

FluidSplitter.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 21.2.2

fluid splitter

fluidsplitter.fsm (28.3 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2022-02-11T14:02:56Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Feb 11, '22 Felix Möhlmann edited Feb 11, '22

This is the intended behaviour.

"If there is not enough room in one of the downstream objects to receive the amount the Splitter has calculated, the amount sent to each port is reduced to keep the percentages correct."

https://docs.flexsim.com/en/22.0/Reference/3DObjects/Fluid/FluidSplitter/FluidSplitter.html

If you want to change the percentages based on the port status you can change the values in the splitter's variables tree., when you open/close a port.

The following code, for example, makes the splitter send all fluid to the second port.

Object Splitter = Model.find("FluidSplitter1");
Table percentageTable = Splitter.find(">variables/recipetable");
percentageTable[1][2] = 0;
percentageTable[2][2] = 100;

Edit: Instead you could also simply use a third thank (with a small capacity) to split the fluid between the two destinations.

fluidsplitter_1.fsm

fluidsplitter-1.fsm (28.1 KiB)

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