• MonoFluid: holds the state of one fluid constituent (GUNNS_O2, etc) in a PolyFluid
• PolyFluid: has one MonoFluid for each constituent in the network, holds the state of the mixture

Every fluid node has 2 PolyFluids:

• mInflow: represents the mixed state of all flows coming into the node.
  • Only used as a temporary mixing place for inflows before it is added to the mContent.
• mContent: represents the state of the contents in the node’s volume.
  • The fluid states in mContent are balanced at the end of the network frame. Once balanced, their state is consistent with the network solution (except for state error).

• All links have a pointer to a PolyFluid called mInternalFluid that is dynamically allocated to an actual PolyFluid object, but only when that link class needs it.
  • This pointer can be NULL.
  • This fluid is used by some links that modify the fluid passing through it.
• Some links add more PolyFluid objects to track other fluid states separately.
  • All of these link fluids are generally only for temporary use by the link and don’t represent balanced states that are consistent with the network solution.
  • Keep this in mind when looking at these fluid states.

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