US 11,907,625 B2
Computer simulation of multi-phase and multi-component fluid flows including physics of under-resolved porous structures
Hiroshi Otomo, Waltham, MA (US); Rafael Salazar Tio, Waltham, MA (US); Hudong Chen, Waltham, MA (US); Raoyang Zhang, Waltham, MA (US); Andrew Fager, San Francisco, CA (US); Ganapathi Raman Balasubramanian, Waltham, MA (US); Bernd Crouse, Brisbane, CA (US); Hongli Fan, Waltham, MA (US); and Jingjing Yang, Waltham, MA (US)
Assigned to Dassault Systemes Americas Corp., Waltham, MA (US)
Filed by Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp., Johnston, RI (US)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/136,259.
Prior Publication US 2022/0207219 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 30/28 (2020.01); G06T 7/10 (2017.01); G06F 113/08 (2020.01); G06F 111/20 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/28 (2020.01) [G06T 7/10 (2017.01); G06F 2111/20 (2020.01); G06F 2113/08 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A computer system comprises:
one or more processor devices;
memory coupled to the one or more processor devices;
storage storing executable computer instructions for conducting a fluid simulation of a porous medium, the instructions to configure the one or more processors to:
access, from memory, a three dimensional digital image of a three-dimensional porous medium;
perform image processing on the accessed three dimensional digital image;
based on performing the image processing, generate a representation of the three dimensional porous medium, the representation including pore space corresponding to the porous medium;
determine that the representation includes at least one portion of under-resolved pore structure in the porous medium, the under-resolved pore structure having a pore size smaller than a resolution of the fluid simulation; and
digitally construct a visual representation of fluid force curves that correspond to fluid forces in the under-resolved pore structure in the representation.