Patent ID: 7277771

Claim:
A method for analyzing a three-dimensional flow of a foaming material injected into a predetermined space from an injection port comprising the steps of: (a) taking in a structure data defining the space from a recording device into a calculation device so as to make a model space shape for analyzing the flow of the foaming material, (b) dividing said model space shape into three dimensional solid finite elements being a plurality of specific spaces so as to make the space shape composed of the plural finite elements, (c) using at least initial injecting velocity, initial density, initial viscosity, information of a position of an injection port, an initial time increment, density equation, viscosity equation, equation of continuity, and a three-dimensional motion equation so as to calculate fluid velocity, fluid pressure, density and viscosity of the foaming material within a first finite element after the initial time increment has passed, (d) making the calculated result in the step (c) correspond to the initial time increment in the first finite element nearest to the injection port so as to memorize in a recording device, (e) calculating fluid velocity, fluid pressure, density and viscosity of the foaming material within the first finite element after a subsequently predetermined second time increment has passed, (f) calculating fluid velocity, fluid pressure, density and viscosity of the foaming material within a second finite element adjacent to the first finite element by using an output value in the first finite element as an input value and the sum of the initial time increment and the second time increment which is an elapsed time of the foaming material passing through the injection pod until reaching the second finite element, (g) making the calculated results in steps (e) and (f) correspond to the position of the finite element space and to the elapsed time of the foaming material passing through the injection port until reaching the second finite element so as to memorize in the recording device, (h) repeating steps (e) through (g) until a sum total of the volumes of the finite elements becomes equal to the volume of the model space, and (I) using the results of the analysis to control the flow of foaming material injected through the injection port.