• Most important lesson here is: how fluids behave in GUNNS and the important differences with how they behave in the real world.
  • Know what to expect from the GUNNS fluid when you do things to it.
• We’re not going to get too deep into the thermo or math
  • We want to focus on presenting practical knowledge in this course.
• Vast majority of signatures from GUNNS are an attempt to model real-world physics — very few are “canned” or faked.
  • Therefore most of what you see in runtime is an approximation of real-world effects and the combinations and interactions of these effects from all of the objects in the network and interfaced aspects.
  • These interacting signatures quickly get very complicated to the point where you won’t be able to explain every little squiggle in the output of the model, so you have to trust that it’s coming from a decent approximation of real-world physics.
  • It helps to understand which physics are being modeled.

Generic	Fluid (Units)
potential	pressure (kPa)
flux	molar flow rate (kg*mol/s)
quantity	molecules (kg*mol)
capacitance	capacitance (kg*mol/kPa)
conductance	~ cross-sectional area (m2)
ground	perfect vacuum (0 kPa)
power	hydraulic power or heat flux (W)

We’ll explain (kg*mol) later.

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