Abstract:
A simulation apparatus, including: a coordinate setting unit for setting slow coordinates and fast coordinates based on mass point coordinates; a coordinate extraction unit for obtaining a structure of the fast coordinates by subordinating the fast coordinates to the slow coordinates and obtaining, by taking into account influence of a change in the fast coordinates on the slow coordinates due to a change in the slow coordinates, a structure of the slow coordinates as a function of collective coordinate(s); and an inverse transformation unit for predicting time evolution of the mass point coordinates based on the collective coordinate(s), which can be obtained as a solution of a motion equation, structure of the slow coordinates, and structure of the fast coordinates.
Abstract:
A simulation method predicts wet spreading and unions of a plurality of droplets arranged on a patterned surface defined by a fine pattern of protrusions and recesses, the patterned surface causing anisotropy to occur in the wet spreading of the droplets. The influence imparted by the pattern of protrusions and recesses that defines the patterned surface, which is the target of analysis, on the wet spreading of the droplets is treated as wetting properties of an analysis surface, and the wet spreading and unions of the plurality of droplets on the analysis surface are analyzed by gas liquid two phase flow analysis that incorporates the wetting property parameters that represents the wetting properties.