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US 2014/0005983 A1Published application
Microscale modeling of porous media flow
OwnerThomas Alva BAER, Mel ALLENDE-BLANCO +3inventors
InventorsThomas Alva BAER, Mel ALLENDE-BLANCO, Jianjun FENG, Douglas Gregory STEVENS, Matthew Joseph MACURA
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Abstract
Methods of using computer based models for simulating a porous media.
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A method of simulation, comprising:
- a. analyzing a product sample to generate a three dimensional grayscale image;
- b. importing the grey scale image into a binary mapping program;
- c. constructing an isosurface of solid structures from the binary mapping;
- d. applying a meshing tool to the exported isosurface to construct hexdominant mesh on open space surrounding the product geometry;
- e. constructing a free surface model using an embedded interface method on the meshed geometry;
- f. reconstructing the monolithic data set;
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- g. employing a visualization tool to view and extract pertinent solution information from the monolithic data set.
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A method comprising:
- a. analyzing a product sample to generate a three dimensional grayscale image;
- b. importing the grey scale image into a binary mapping program;
- c. converting the grey scale image to binary mapping;
- d. constructing an isosurface of solid structures from the binary mapping;
- e. exporting the isosurface as a stereolithographic file;
- f. applying a meshing tool to the stereolithographic file to construct hexdominant mesh on open space surrounding the product geometry;
- g. constructing a free surface model using an embedded interface method on the meshed geometry;
- h. defining field values to specify a starting location of a fluid phase;
- i. decomposing the mesh model into parallelized solution domains;
- j. executing the model in parallel on decomposed geometry;
- k. reconstructing the monolithic data set;
- l. employing a visualization tool to view and extract pertinent solution information from the monolithic data set;
- m. repeating the method on multiple sets of materials;
- n. constructing a multilayer model;
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- o. employing a visualization tool to view and extract pertinent solution information from the multilayer model.
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