Patent ID: 8386219
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of simulation, comprising: representing an absorbent article with a computer based model of the absorbent article, wherein the absorbent article includes an absorbent material, wherein the absorbent article material is represented by cells, and wherein all of the cells representing the absorbent material have cell lengths that are less than or equal to 0.5 millimeters; a first transforming of the model of the absorbent article by simulating a fitting of the absorbent article onto a human body, using finite element analysis, to form a computer based model that represents the fitted absorbent article; representing a bodily fluid with a computer based model of the bodily fluid, wherein the bodily fluid is represented by cells, and wherein all of the cells representing the bodily fluid have cell lengths that are less than or equal to one millimeter; and a second transforming of the model of the absorbent article by simulating a provision of the bodily fluid to the fitted absorbent article, using computational fluid dynamics, to form a computer based model that represents a distribution of the bodily fluid and the fitted absorbent article, as a fitted, wet absorbent article.