Patent ID: 11954412
Assignee: ANSYS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A computer-implemented method for transferring data between simulation models having different topological dimensionality comprising:
receiving data characterizing a source simulation model of a physical object and a target simulation model of the physical object, the source simulation model comprising a first mesh and a mesh object having a plurality of mesh elements, the target simulation model having a different dimensionality than the first simulation model and comprising a second mesh;
projecting a sweep path from the mesh object of the target simulation model in a sweep direction;
determining intersections between the sweep path and the first mesh in the source simulation model
calculating, for each mesh element of the source simulation model, a contribution from the mesh element in the corresponding intersection;
generating one or more weights based on the calculated contributions; and
generating values of physical characteristics for the target simulation model by mapping values of the physical characteristics from the first mesh to the second mesh using the one or more weights.