US 11,941,331 B2
Multi-phase flow visualizations based on fluid occupation time
Bernd Crouse, Brisbane, CA (US); and Rui Xu, San Francisco, LA (US)
Assigned to Dassault Systemes Americas Corp., Waltham, MA (US)
Filed by Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp., Johnston, RI (US)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,310.
Application 17/897,310 is a continuation of application No. 15/880,867, filed on Jan. 26, 2018, granted, now 11,461,512.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/450,989, filed on Jan. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414295 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 30/20 (2020.01); E21B 43/16 (2006.01); G01F 1/704 (2006.01); G01F 1/74 (2006.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G01N 13/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 30/20 (2020.01) [E21B 43/16 (2013.01); G01F 1/704 (2013.01); G01F 1/74 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G01N 13/00 (2013.01); G01N 33/24 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A method performed by a data processing system for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases to provide detail about a displacement process, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization, the method comprising:
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; and
rendering on a display of a display device a visualization, with a location in the visualization corresponding to the particular location, and with rendered data for that location in the visualization indicating the occupation time,
wherein locations in the rendered visualization associated with smaller amounts of occupation time, relative to other amounts of occupation time of other locations in the visualization, represent a displacement front;
wherein the visualization is included in a video or a set of visualizations representing a progression of the displacement front for a plurality of times.