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.
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Disclosed are techniques for scalar solvers in flow simulations that include simulating using a scalar lattice velocity set in a computing system, movement of scalar particles representing a scalar quantity in a volume of fluid, with the scalar particles carried by flow particles of the volume of fluid, and with the movement of the scalar particles causing collisions among the scalar particles; and evaluating, a non-equilibrium post-collide scalar distribution function of a specified order that is representative of the scalar collision.
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Embodiments provide methods and systems for modeling the flow of fluid in variable physical and geological environments using dynamically determined Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), such as Darcy Flow and Poiseuille flow.
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This description relates to computer simulation of physical processes, such as computer simulation of multi-species flow through porous media including the determination/estimation of relative permeabilities for the multi-species flow through the porous media.
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A computer-implemented method for verifying a model in a product lifecycle management (PLM) system includes defining a model and an envelope of allowable model states and, based on one or more requirements, deriving at least one counterexample objective. The method also includes optimizing a set of parameters related to the allowable model states and the allowable model context, redefining at least one of the model and the allowable model states when the at least one counterexample objective is outside of a specified tolerance, and, after a predefined number of iterations, defining the model as verified.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for simulating behavior of a modeled object includes storing a tolerance attribute value in a memory area for a specified parameter of the modeled object, defining a set of rules representative of a plurality of assumptions of a model simulation, executing the model simulation based on the tolerance attribute, verifying an output of the model simulation with respect to a set of rules that are dependent on input and output values for which the tolerance attribute as verified, and validating the output behavior against requirements for every stage of the product lifecycle, from preliminary design to end of life.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method is provided for use in finite element analysis of a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a physical object. The computer-implemented method includes combining a plurality of retained degrees of freedom of the 3D representation to form a root substructure, reducing a structure of the 3D representation on to a reduced automated multilevel substructuring (AMLS) subspace, and computing a plurality of eigenmodes and condensed operators based on the reduced structure, and computing constraint modes using an AMLS transformation matrix. The computer-implemented method also includes generating at least one substructure of the 3D representation based on the plurality of eigenmodes, constraint modes, and condensed operators, and storing the at least one substructure in a memory area.
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.
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.
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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.