Patent ID: 6959269
Filing Date: 2005-10-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for simulating a flow field, the method comprising: receiving a set of user inputs associated with a flow field; electronically determining a set of initial conditions for the flow field based at least on the received set of user inputs; electronically generating a grid comprising a plurality of cells, each cell associated with a set of variables describing a portion of the flow field at that cell; at each of a predetermined plurality of steps, using a computerized computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver to calculate a value for each variable associated with each cell based at least on a previous value calculated at the previous step for that variable associated with that cell by applying a flow field function to the previous value, at least a portion of the calculated values being calculated based at least on the set of electronically determined initial conditions; electronically recording the values calculated at periodic ones of the plurality of steps such that the values calculated at only a portion of the steps are recorded; electronically averaging the values recorded at the periodic steps for each variable of each cell to yield an averaged value for each variable; and determining the flow field from the averaged values.