Fluid dynamics modeling to determine a pore property of a screen device

A method comprising:

• accessing, by a processor, a digital design of a screen device having attributes that are to form matching attributes on a part, wherein the part is to be formed from a slurry composed of a liquid and material elements;
• applying, by the processor, a first fluid dynamics modeling on the digital design of the screen device with pores having a first property to model how liquid in a slurry composed of the liquid and material elements is predicted to flow through the pores having the first property during formation of a part on the screen device;
• applying, by the processor, a second fluid dynamics modeling on the digital design of the screen device with the pores having a second property to model how the liquid in the slurry is predicted to flow through the pores having the second property during formation of the part;
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• determining, by the processor, which of the digital designs of the screen device with the pores having the first property and the second property is predicted to result in the part being formed to have a superior attribute and/or the part being formed in a shorter length of time.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is stored computer-readable instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• apply a fluid dynamics modeling on a first digital design of a screen device with pores having a first property to model how a liquid in a slurry composed of the liquid and material elements is predicted to flow through the pores having the first property during formation of a part on the screen device;
• apply the fluid dynamics modeling on a second digital design of the screen device with the pores having a second property to model how the liquid is predicted to flow through the pores having the second property during formation of the part;
• and
• select one of the first digital design and the second digital design of the screen device predicted to result in the part being formed to have a superior attribute and/or the part being formed in a shorter length of time for use in fabricating the screen device.