Inqueueing theory, a discipline within the mathematicaltheory of probability, afluid limit,fluid approximation orfluid analysis of a stochastic model is a deterministic real-valued process which approximates the evolution of a given stochastic process, usually subject to some scaling or limiting criteria.
Fluid limits were first introduced by Thomas G. Kurtz publishing alaw of large numbers andcentral limit theorem forMarkov chains.[1][2] It is known that a queueing network can be stable, but have an unstable fluid limit.[3]
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