Patent ID: 8428852

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a plurality of computation units configured to implement a one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model for controlling a physical system, wherein each computation unit is associated with a respective node of the one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model, wherein the plurality of computation units are configured to operate in parallel; wherein the plurality of computation units are configured to implement the one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model to receive a boundary condition signal for the one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model at a time t 1 , wherein the boundary condition signal represents a first physical variable sampled at a first location in the physical system; and wherein the plurality of computation units are configured to implement the one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model to generate an output signal representing a second physical variable at a second location in the physical system, wherein the first physical variable and the second physical variable are different physical variables, wherein the second physical variable is not sampled in the physical system, and wherein the output signal is usable for controlling the physical system; wherein the plurality of computation units are configured to implement the one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model to generate the output signal before a second boundary condition signal is received at a time t 2 .