A terminal of an electrical circuit is a wire that allows the circuit to interact with its environment through a potential and a current. Interconnection is defined as variable sharing: two terminals share the same potential and current. A port of an electrical circuit is a set of terminals that satisfy port-KCL (Kirchhoff's current law). Power and energy that enter a circuit is defined for ports. Terminals are for interconnection, ports are for energy transfer. A port of a mechanical system is a set of terminals that satisfy port-KFL (Kirchhoff's force law). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
CITATION STYLE
Willems, J. C. (2010). Ports and terminals. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 398, 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93918-4_3
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.