Patent ID: 8285530
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: G06F,G06G

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for a processor to perform a method for simulating a final pattern of a droplet of a fluid, the instructions comprising: instructions for using lubrication equations to represent behavior of the droplet on a substrate, wherein the lubrication equations include: instructions for using the lubrication equations to represent using a first equation to represent a relationship between a temporal derivative of the solute amount and a spatial derivative of the first function; instructions for approximating the spatial derivate of the first function at a first node in the simulation space by calculating a difference between the first function evaluated at a second point in the simulation space and the first function evaluated at a third point in the simulation space; instructions for evaluating the first function at the second point in the simulation space includes: