Dynamic simulation of fluid filled vessels
AssigneeInvensys Systems, Inc.
InventorIan H. Boys
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Abstract
A system is provided. The system comprises a computer system comprising at least one processor, a thermodynamic state solver application, and a thermodynamic system solver application. When executed by the at least one processor, the thermodynamic state solver application computes a flash equilibrium state solution for each of a plurality of nodes in a thermodynamic network and determines for each of the plurality of nodes at least one sensitivity of a first thermodynamic property with reference to at least one second thermodynamic property. When executed by the at least one processor, the thermodynamic system solver computes a pressure at each of the nodes and flows between the nodes based at least in part on the sensitivities, wherein a result based on the pressures and flows is determined.
Claims21
A system, comprising:
- a computer system comprising at least one processor;
- a thermodynamic state solver application that, when executed by the at least one processor, computes a flash equilibrium state solution for each of a plurality of nodes in a thermodynamic network and determines for each of the plurality of nodes at least one sensitivity of a first thermodynamic property with reference to at least one second thermodynamic property;
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- a thermodynamic system solver application that, when executed by the at least one processor, computes a thermodynamic state solution of the thermodynamic network based at least in part on the sensitivities.
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A computer program product for a thermodynamic modeling system, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therein;
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- the computer usable program code implementing a thermodynamic state solver application and a thermodynamic system solver application,
- wherein the thermodynamic state solver application, when executed by at least one processor, computes a flash equilibrium state solution for each of a plurality of nodes in a thermodynamic network and determines for each of the plurality of nodes at least one sensitivity of a first thermodynamic property with reference to at least one second thermodynamic property, and
- wherein the thermodynamic system solver application, when executed by the at least one processor, computes a thermodynamic system solution of the thermodynamic network based at least in part on the sensitivities,
- wherein a result based on the thermodynamic system solution is determined by the computer usable program code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.