Geometrical dimensionality control in optimization

    公开(公告)号:US12164846B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-10

    申请号:US17114577

    申请日:2020-12-08

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of automatically determining an optimized design for manufacturing a real-world object includes: defining, in memory of a computer-based processor, a finite element model representing a real-world object, the finite element comprising a plurality of elements; evaluating, with the computer-based processor, a distribution of a design variable throughout a vicinity of the finite element model, using singular value decomposition (SVD), to produce a singular value for the design variable in each respective element in the vicinity of the finite element model; defining optimization constraints for the vicinity of the finite element model based on the singular values produced from the SVD; and optimizing the finite element model with respect to the design variable by locally enforcing a geometry of the real-world object in the vicinity based on the defined optimization constraints.

    Fast method for computer-based simulation

    公开(公告)号:US11645435B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-09

    申请号:US16447252

    申请日:2019-06-20

    CPC classification number: G06F30/23 G06N7/00 G06N20/00

    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for performing computer-based simulations of real-world objects. In one such embodiment, a mesh-based model representing a real-world object and composed of a plurality of mesh elements each having geometric properties is obtained. In turn, a simulation of physical behavior of the real-world object is performed using the mesh-based model. According to an embodiment, performing the simulation includes, for at least one mesh element, modifying as a function of the geometric properties, measurement values, amounts, or levels of material properties used to determine the physical behavior.

    Determination of hydrocarbon mobilization potential for enhanced oil recovery

    公开(公告)号:US11613984B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-28

    申请号:US16559877

    申请日:2019-09-04

    Abstract: Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for determining an amount of hydrocarbon recoverable from porous reservoir rock by a miscible gas flood. The techniques include retrieve a representation of a physical porous reservoir rock sample (porous reservoir rock), the representation including pore space and grain space data corresponding to the porous reservoir rock, subsequent to an execution of a multiphase flow simulation to obtain predictions of flow behavior of oil in the presence of a waterflood of the porous reservoir rock, locate substantially immobile oil blobs or patches in the retrieved representation of the porous reservoir rock; and for N number of substantially immobile oil blobs or patches (blobs), evaluate changes in mobility of the blobs for two or more iterations an effort level for of a given EOR technique, with a first one of the two or more iterations expending a first level of effort and a second one of the two or more iterations expending a second, higher level of effort, to estimate an amount of change in mobilization of the blob between the first and the second iterations for the given EOR technique.

    Universal wall boundary condition treatment for k-omega turbulence models

    公开(公告)号:US11544431B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16707163

    申请日:2019-12-09

    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for simulating a physical process and for determining boundary conditions for a specific energy dissipation rate of a k-Omega turbulence fluid flow model of a fluid flow, by computing from a cell center distance and fluid flow variables a value of the specific energy dissipation rate for a turbulent flow that is valid for a viscous layer, buffer layer, and logarithmic region of a boundary defined in the simulation space. The value is determined by applying a buffer layer correction factor as a first boundary condition for the energy dissipation rate and by applying a viscous sublayer correction factor as a second boundary condition for the energy dissipation rate.

    Multi-phase flow visualizations based on fluid occupation time

    公开(公告)号:US11461512B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US15880867

    申请日:2018-01-26

    Inventor: Bernd Crouse Rui Xu

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time. The method includes generating data for a visualization, with a location in the visualization corresponding to the particular location, and with the generated data for that location in the visualization indicating the occupation time.

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