A transposer is a primitive design element that allows reconfigurable routing of any fluid from any of n input ports to any n output ports without interrupting continuous flow.
For anyone interested, this device is based on sorting networks, which I don’t think the original authors realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network
There is a lot written about these already, on graph theory and sorting algorithms, and the authors sort of “reinvented the wheel” of this topic
For anyone interested, this device is based on sorting networks, which I don’t think the original authors realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network
There is a lot written about these already, on graph theory and sorting algorithms, and the authors sort of “reinvented the wheel” of this topic