Patent ID: 8467998

Claim:
A computer-aided method implemented on a computer for predicting particle uptake by a surface of an object moving in a flow current, comprising the following steps: preparing, using the computer, a discrete model of said object and surrounding flow, including a projection area for projecting particles formed by a first mesh of cells with particles of an identical size, and a second mesh of cells forming said surface, enabling simulation of paths of the particles projected from the projection area and determination of which of the particles impact said surface; simulating, using the computer, a projection of particles with a different size from said projection area on said surface, both a density Di of the projected particles and a size distribution of the projected particles being identical for a first cell; and calculating, using the computer, for each second cell of said surface a local uptake efficiency parameter by dividing a density Df of the particles impacting against a second cell by the density Di of the projected particles from the projection area formed by the first cells, wherein a single calculation is used for all different particle densities.