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Mass action-style ODE semantics for stock-flow diagrams #112

Open epatters opened 3 weeks ago

epatters commented 3 weeks ago

Inspired by the mass action kinetics for Petri nets, this semantics for primitive stock and flow diagrams (not described in the literature AFAIK) would assign flow functions equal to a constant times the upstream stock times the product of all stocks linked to the flow.

Not what the system dynamics practitioners will want but good enough for a proof of concept and enough to produce SIR-type dynamics.