Class FluidOverload
A steady-state fluid solve integrates the drift to a finite horizon. At an open station whose offered load exceeds its capacity there is no fixed point to reach: the queue grows for as long as the integration runs, so the value at the end of the horizon is a property of the horizon and of the ODE solver's step control, not of the model.
The test is the solve's own flow balance, read after the fact: a finite-server station that is saturated (total utilization within CoarseTol of 1) and at which an OPEN class departs more slowly than it arrives is not stationary. Such an entry gets QLen = RespT = +Infinity, the marker SolverMVA and SolverNC use for an unstable open station, and the system response time of its chain follows. Util and Tput (the saturated departure rate) do not depend on the horizon and are left as computed. Reading the balance rather than the traffic equations is deliberate: a station downstream of a saturated one is fed at the saturated station's departure rate, and may well be stable.
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