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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190648 | Method and system for the storage and use of engineering modeling alternatives with unitized data A database design modeling system for managing data facets for design scenarios as a collection of hierarchical unitized data alternatives is provided. The database design model allows for easy access to data while providing a single persistant location for any one ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175859 | Efficient method for pressure dependent water distribution analysis A computer software program provides an algorithm that solves for unknown demands (and junction pressures) within a modeling system that uses a generalized, unified loop-node formulation. The program can be used to calculate the available demand (i.e., the amount of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8150668 | Thermal fluid-structure interaction simulation in finite element analysis Simulation of thermal fluid-structure interaction using bulk flow fluid elements (BFFEs) is described. Each BFFE is configured to include the following characteristics: 1) at least one surrounding layer of solid elements representing either the surrounding structure... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8117019 | Method for evaluating sedimentary basin properties by numerical modeling of sedimentation processes A method is disclosed for simulating the formation of sedimentary deposits. In one embodiment, this method involves, (a) solving a two-dimensional time-dependent map view system of equations for at least flow momentum, flow height, suspended sediment concentration, ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112259 | Method of predicting changes in the chemical composition of a reservoir oil as a result of biodegradation Method of determining the compositional evolution of fluids present in a porous medium as a result of biodegradation. A biodegradation compositional scheme is defined from twelve chemical classes allowing the hydrocarbons and the gases resulting from biodegra... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8099265 | Fast characterization of fluid dynamics Methods and apparatus for fast computation of fluid velocity fields in the presence of objects causing flow discontinuity are disclosed. Rigorous evaluation of perturbed velocity fields, each resulting from placing an object in a bounded space sustaining a reference... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095348 | Support system, support method and support program of resin molded article A model creation portion having a obstacle in a space includes two creation portions, one is to separate them and another is to combine them which handles, as porous media, an obstacle in which narrow spaces are regularly arranged. A thermosets flow analysis portion... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8065127 | Particle system architecture in a multi-body physics simulation An architecture tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium, the architecture for creating a particle system to be used in a physical simulation, including: a plurality of particle generation modules, wherein a particle generation module generates particles in a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055490 | Semi-Lagrangian CIP fluid solver without dimensional splitting A new constrained interpolation profile method, which is stable and accurate but requires less amount of computation, is provided. CIP is a high-order fluid advection solver that can reproduce rich details of fluids. It has third-order accuracy but its computation i... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041550 | Two-way rigid body coupling in shallow water simulations One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for computing two-way rigid body coupling in a two-dimensional height field simulation, such as a shallow water simulation. Coupling from a rigid body to a fluid is computed using fluid displacement of t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8014986 | Finite difference algorithm for solving lubrication equations with solute diffusion A computer implemented method for simulating a final pattern of a droplet of a fluid having a plurality of fluid properties is disclosed. The method includes using lubrication equations to represent solute flow, diffusion and evaporation of a droplet on a substrate.... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010329 | Computer-implemented system and method for designing a pressure-dosed drain field A computer-implemented system for designing a pressure-dosed drain field comprising: a screen that allows a user to specify length and diameter for pipes that comprise the forcemain and discharge assembly, specify the pumping liquid level and discharge elevation, se... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010330 | Extracting temporally coherent surfaces from particle systems The space including a particle system is discretized into volume elements. Signed distance values at each time and velocity values at a time are assigned to volume elements based on the particle system. The each volume element's position at the current time is extra... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7987081 | Method and system for a quick calculation of aerodynamic forces on an aircraft A computer-aided method suitable for assisting in the design of an aircraft by providing the dimensioning aerodynamic forces and other relevant values comprising the following steps: a) Selecting a set of parameters of the aircraft, being said aerodynamic forces and... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987082 | System and method for efficient computation of simulated thermodynamic property and phase equilibrium characteristics using comprehensive local property models A method of estimating a thermophysical property of a fluid using a local model is disclosed herein. The method includes generating, for use within the local model, a series expansion of thermodynamic equations relating to the thermophysical property and one or more... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983884 | Water particle manipulation Realistic sprays for simulated fluids are created by adding a set of spray particles to a boundary region just below the fluid surface. The fluid surface is determined by solving a level set equation for a zero level corresponding to the fluid surface. Additionally,... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979256 | Determining absorbent article effectiveness A method for determining absorbent article effectiveness of a virtual absorbent article. The steps of the method include providing a virtual body model, providing a virtual absorbent article model, providing virtual simulation software, running a virtual simulation ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979257 | Apparatus and methods for performing process simulation using a hybrid model The invention provides an apparatus and methods for performing process simulation and structural analysis using a hybrid model. For example, a method of the invention automatically defines a hybrid solution domain by dividing a representation of a plastic component ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957945 | Inundation simulator and program An inundation simulation program and device using the same for displaying a map, receiving input from a user indicating a starting point and an ending point in a bank breakage section on the map, and displaying on the map a line connecting the starting point and the... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7933757 | Method for simulating and estimating sandstone properties The invention is a method for simulating sandstone deposition. The sandstone is simulated by estimating the grain size distribution and mineral composition of grains in the sandstone, simulating sedimentation of grains from the grain size distribution and mineral co... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930155 | Mass conserving algorithm for solving a solute advection diffusion equation inside an evaporating droplet The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for simulating and analyzing a change in concentration of solute in a solution. The solution being simulated is encompassed by an interface. The concentration at a first point in time is determined at a s... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925480 | Tool for identifying project energy interdependencies A simulation system [200] models and optimizes parameters for a pulsed liquid slug boring system employing an energetic fluid [7]. The simulation system [200] employs a fluid flow energy unit [251], an exhaust and retention energy unit [ | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921001 | Coupled algorithms on quadrilateral grids for generalized axi-symmetric viscoelastic fluid flows The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for simulating and analyzing viscoelastic fluid flow. The fluid flows through a channel and is ejected from a channel. The fluid has an interface between a first fluid and a second fluid. The method inclu... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921002 | Method and system for simulating flow of fluid around a body A simulation method for flow of fluid around a body, according to the present invention, comprising dividing a target domain of simulation into a plurality of computational unit domains named cubes, generating an uniform number of Cartesian mesh elements named cells... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921003 | System and method for simulating shallow water effects on arbitrary surfaces A system and method for shallow water simulation may provide a framework for solving General Shallow Wave Equations (GSWE) to efficiently simulate 3D fluid effects on arbitrary surfaces using a height field representation. The height field representation may include... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912687 | Methods of predicting cavitation damage A method is provided for predicting the likelihood of cavitation damage occurring on a surface of a hydrodynamic component. The method may include creating a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of the hydrodynamic component, wherein creating the CFD simula... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912686 | Method of optimizing enhanced recovery of a fluid in place in a porous medium by front tracking The method of the invention optimizes the development of a heterogeneous porous medium using enhanced recovery of a fluid by fast determination of position of a front separating a sweeping fluid and the fluid in the medium having application for development of oil r... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7890312 | Method for predicting loudspeaker port performance and optimizing loudspeaker port designs utilizing bi-directional fluid flow principles A method is provided for predicting the performance of a loudspeaker port and optimizing port design. The method involves defining the geometries of a loudspeaker port, modeling the bi-directional fluid flow in the defined port utilizing a modeling method known as C... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890311 | Method of simulating flow-through area of a pressure regulator The flow-through area of a pressure regulator positioned in a branch of a simulated fluid flow network is generated. A target pressure is defined downstream of the pressure regulator. A projected flow-through area is generated as a non-linear function of (i) target ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7813907 | Hybrid method for enforcing curvature related boundary conditions in solving one-phase fluid flow over a deformable domain An embodiment of the present invention may be a system or method for simulating the flow of a single-phase fluid flow. Markers represent a moving fluid boundary of the single-phase fluid at a first point in time. The moving fluid boundary separates a simulation spac... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7797143 | River assessment, monitoring and design system A method, apparatus and program product to facilitate the analysis and monitoring of stream and river conditions, with emphasis on Natural Channel Design. To this end, the invention uses and processes channel data to provide analysis and monitoring information and o... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7797142 | Simulating cavitation damage Methods and systems provide a simulation of cavitation damage. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method simulates a potential for cavitation damage. According to the method, data defining a modeled component is imported to a flow solver tool. The flow so... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788073 | Processes for determining the strength of a plate-type exchanger, for producing a plate-type heat exchanger, and for producing a process engineering system A process for determining the strength of a plate-type heat exchanger includes computing the temperature stresses of the plate-type heat exchanger within the heat exchanger during its operation by a three-dimensional numerical simulation. Based on the computed tempe... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7765090 | Apparatus and method for identification of swirling flow A swirling flow identification apparatus includes an eigenequation calculation section 3 and a swirl axis calculation section 4. The eigenequation calculation section 3, based on velocity data of a fluid at a coordinate point, calculates an eige... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7739088 | Method and program for simulating occurrence of air pocket A method simulating an occurrence of an air pocket in an object to be coated is provided with steps of: setting an initial boundary element; setting an element having a common nodal point with the initial boundary element as a flanking element; analyzing the flankin... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7698116 | Manifolds for delivering fluids having a desired mass flow profile and methods for designing the same Manifolds are designed to deliver fluid through multiple orifices of the manifold such that for a given inlet fluid pressure the fluid being output from the multiple orifices has a desired mass flow profile. The desired mass flow profile includes a desired mass flow... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7676352 | System and method for efficient computation of simulated thermodynamic property and phase equilibrium characteristics using comprehensive local property models A method of estimating a thermophysical property of a fluid using a local model is disclosed herein. The method includes generating, for use within the local model, a series expansion of thermodynamic equations relating to the thermophysical property and one or more... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7627460 | Method for the modeling of material and/or heat exchange process in a device and device for carrying out said method Mass transfer and/or heat transport processes in a fuel-cell stack are controlled by first modeling a selected region of the stack with at least two fluid components separated from one another by solid material. Each fluid component of the selected region is then tr... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7617082 | Method, system and program storage device for simulating fluid flow in a physical system using a dynamic composition based extensible object-oriented architecture The present invention provides a method, a system and a program storage device containing instructions for simulating the flow of fluid in a physical system using a composition-based extensible object-oriented program. A computer program includes: (i) a framework su... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7603263 | Spatial simulation program and system It is possible to easily perform the spatial simulation for a large area. Provided is a computer-readable medium recorded with a spatial simulation program for controlling a computer to execute procedures for calculating a time-based change of a variable in a plural... | 10/13/2009 |
