From gepr at tempusdictum.com  Fri May  2 08:19:34 2008
From: gepr at tempusdictum.com (glen e. p. ropella)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 08:19:34 -0700
Subject: [furm] whew!
Message-ID: <481B3106.4050407@tempusdictum.com>


I finally finished the solute-specific equilibrating buffer space coding
changes.  They are tested and checked in.  I'll start a few experiments
to see the results.

The changes were more complicated than I'd anticipated because the model
takes a liver-centric point of view.  I not only had to create the
maximal buffer spaces in each SS (according to whichever solute type had
the highest number of "numBufferSpaces" specified in the parameter
file); but I had to parameterize each individual buffer space with a
list of solute types that it recognizes.  And for each solute type it
does not recognize, I had to create a transparent pipe so that such
unrecognized solute would pass through it immediately without interference.

The good news is this effort gave me an excuse to refactor the FlowSpace
code (FlowSpace is the shared base class of the SSpace, MiddleSpace,
ESpace, and DisseSpace) so that it's a bit more sensible and clean.

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