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7630871 Crush modelling  
A method of determining the impact resistance of a structure including a crushable material comprises the steps of determining for one or more layers of a finite element of said material during an...
7627390 Method and apparatus for the free-form optimization of bevel and hypoid gears  
Method for the optimization of the surface geometry or of a variable, dependent on this, or variables, dependent on this, of bevel or hypoid gears for their production on a free-form machine which...
7627389 Method and apparatus for the free-form optimization of bevel and hypoid gears  
Method for the optimization of the surface geometry or of a variable, dependent on this, or variables, dependent on this, of bevel or hypoid gears for their production on a free-form machine which...
7624823 Roller cone drill bits with optimized cutting zones, load zones, stress zones and wear zones for increased drilling life and methods  
Roller cone drill bits may be formed with cutting elements and cutting structures optimized to increase downhole drilling life of an associated drill bit. The cutting zone, load zone and wear zone...
7620532 Object discretization to particles for computer simulation and analysis  
A computer-implemented method is provided for generating data representing an object involved in a computer-implemented simulation of a physical experiment. Data describing geometric dimensions and...
7617080 Image enhancement by spatial linear deconvolution  
Data from a target system ( 616 ) that exhibits a non-linear relationship between system properties and measurement data, is processed by applying a linear filter (F) to improve resolution and...
7613585 Method and system for defining material properties hierarchically in finite element analysis  
A system, method and software product for defining material properties hierarchically in a finite element analysis of a structure is disclosed. As a material type is created, the type is checked...
7610184 Sector meshing and neighbor searching for object interaction simulation  
Methods for computer-implemented simulation for the interaction of two or more objects are provided. Data describing particles that represent each of the objects is generated from geometric data...
7610182 Image display apparatus, method and program based on rigid body dynamics  
An image display system and method that use physical models to produce a realistic display of a scene are disclosed. The image display method involves operating a computer having a display screen,...
7610179 Coupled parametric design of flow control and duct shape  
A method for designing gas turbine engine components using a coupled parametric analysis of part geometry and flow control is disclosed. Included are the steps of parametrically defining the...
7606786 Method and device for simulating process flows in the graphic industry  
A method and a device for simulating process flows in the graphics industry and for displaying the result calculated in the simulated process flows. The method is characterized by the following...
7606689 Design support system, design support method, program, and storage medium  
A design support system is provided, which accurately simulates the behavior of a flexible medium in a convey path even if the flexible medium exhibits different flexural stiffness in different...
7606688 Object oriented finite element modeling tools  
Techniques for creating a finite element model are disclosed that include various processes including: superimposing a rectangular array of nodes and nodal-pointers onto a wire-frame geometry, and...
7606683 Cooling system design simulator  
A method of computer-based simulation of a cooling system includes inputting condenser parameters, evaporator parameters and compressor parameters for the cooling system and processing the...
7603261 Method for predicting acid placement in carbonate reservoirs  
A computationally efficient general method of modeling or simulating matrix acidizing treatment when flow is not axisymmetric involves determining streamlines in the general flow field using...
7599824 Gear cutting simulation method, gear cutting simulation program, and gear cutting simulation device  
In a gear cutting simulation method and device, a gear-cutting-machine model which specifies relative positions between a blank model and a cutter model is created. A gear model is created as a...
7596479 Method for determining a blank form of an elastic component  
The invention starts with a method to determine a blank form of an elastic component, in particular a non-articulated wiper arm ( 10 ), with the default of a target form, which the elastic...
7596478 Method of forming a fire resistant structural beam  
A method, and the resultant apparatus, for designing a fire resistant structural beam, such as a computer-aided design of a fabricated steel beam having an intumescent coating material, by...
7596477 Peel strength simulating apparatus, peel strength simulating program storage medium, and peel strength simulating method  
The present invention provides a peel strength simulating apparatus which simulates peel strength between a semiconductor integrated circuit chip and a resin package bonded to each other. The...
7596476 Methods and systems for managing facility power and cooling  
Systems and methods are provided for determining data center cooling and power requirements and for monitoring performance of cooling and power systems in data centers. At least one aspect provides...
7596474 Method for assembling the finite element discretization of arbitrary weak equations involving local or non-local multiphysics couplings  
Disclosed are techniques for representing and modeling one or more systems in which each system corresponds to an application mode. This may be done for one or more geometries using local and/or...
7587304 Printing press simulator  
A printing press simulator for a printing press includes a simulation unit, which simulates a printing process or the behavior of a printing press on the basis of input data specified for the...
7587303 Non-linear solver for a flexible slender-body system  
For determining the behavior of a flexible system submitted to predetermined displacement boundary conditions, a process uses geometrically non-linear finite element analysis. The process has a...
7584084 Method of manufacturing fluttering robot using a fluid-structure interactive numerical model for developing controls for wing driving apparatus  
A numerical model related to fluttering of an insect, when an equivalent model of actual structure of a wing of the insect is moved in the air in accordance with a model of fluttering motion of the...
7584079 Method of configuring a product  
A complex product is composed of several parts, where each part may depend on the other. As a consequence of these inter-dependencies, the selection of one part might exclude other parts from being...
7584038 Method and apparatus for determining virtual visibility  
A method for determining virtual visibility is disclosed. The method includes modeling at least one object in a virtual space and plotting at least one surface from a first predetermined location...
7580815 Information processing apparatus and its control method  
When the convey behavior of a flexible medium conveyed in a conveying path is analyzed by simulation, a design support apparatus of this invention executes 1) processing for approximating a nip on...
7580035 Real-time collision detection using clipping  
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first polygon, receiving a second polygon, calculating a vector joining a centroid of the first polygon and a centroid of the second polygon,...
7577555 Apparatus and method for determining patterns of damage being caused in rolling contact element  
A method of designing a roller bearing is disclosed upon clarifying mechanisms of damage patterns in respect of two kinds of brinelling, involved in the bearing, wherein white-banded flaking...
7574338 Finite-difference simulation and visualization of elastodynamics in time-evolving generalized curvilinear coordinates  
Modeling and simulation of free and forced structural vibrations is essential to an overall structural health monitoring capability. In the various embodiments, a first principles finite-difference...
7573479 Graphics processing device, graphics processing method, game machine, and storage medium  
In a simulation game machine for play on the basis of images of three-dimensionally constituted terrain features and characters which are represented as if viewed from a prescribed camera within a...
7571089 Method for simulating a system having multiple failure modes  
A method is described for determining the effectiveness of maintenance or other improvements to a system having multiple sections and multiple modes of failure. The method uses a simulation model...
7571079 Aware and active features for computer-aided design systems  
Processing data in a computer-aided design (CAD) system includes determining that a feature of a three-dimensional model has a condition that requires correction. The condition is automatically...
7567890 Conversion of model components into references  
An automated model componentization feature systematically converts duplicate or otherwise amenable patterns in a model into references. Multiple references are simplified to one unit that contains...
7565274 Method and apparatus for predicting bending life spans of electric wires and or wire protecting members induced by vibrations, and recording medium storing program  
In a method for predicting bending life spans of wires, the wires, temperatures, pre-vibration shapes, and constraint conditions are set, and finite element models of the electric wires are formed...
7561996 Automated dimensional drawing generating apparatus  
A dimensioning apparatus for generating a dimensional drawing from a model includes an element database with predetermined element names. A plurality of model elements can be associated with...
7559194 Method and device for controlling the injection of reducing agent  
The invention relates to a method and device ( 10 ) for controlling the injection of reducing agent upstream from a catalyst ( 4 ) in an exhaust line ( 2 ) from a combustion engine. According to...
7558713 Method for automating hydraulic manifold design  
A method for automating the manifold design process based on a hydraulic circuit cavity geometry and manifold design parameters successively merges stored design patterns, including orientations...
7555413 Method and computer storage medium for determining a wall-damping function used in the subgrid-scale modeling for large eddy simulation  
A wall-damping function is defined by the use of a Kolmogorov's velocity scale. A dissipation rate ε SGS of SGS turbulent energy for components of a wave number smaller in scale than a grid...
7554550 Non-destructive processing of digital image data  
Systems for rendering Effect graphs for non-destructively processing digital image data which integrate Central Processing Unit (CPU) processing and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) processing are...
7552038 Information processor for supporting a sheet feeding machine design  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a simulation tool, which can overcome complications of examinations by simulations as described above and can provide a designer with easy...
7542889 Determination of a model of a geometry of a metal sheet forming stage  
The invention relates to a method for determining a geometrical object for modeling the geometry of a metal sheet forming stage ( 1 ) in a CAD system. According to said method, an operator is...
7542884 System and method for zero latency, high fidelity emergency assessment of airborne chemical, biological and radiological threats by optimizing sensor placement  
Networked groups of sensors that detect Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) threats are being developed to defend cities and military bases. Due to the high cost and maintenance of these...
7539604 Automatic modification of the behavior of system from a graphical representation of the behavior  
The present invention provides a method of modifying the behavior of a modeled system from a graphical representation of the behavior of the system. Given a graphical representation of the behavior...
7539601 Energy efficient air handling system for cleanrooms  
A refrigeration based air handling system design process for significant energy and cost savings in cleanroom and other applications requiring large air change rates is presented. The process...
7533524 Method and apparatus for soot filter catalyst temperature control with oxygen flow constraint  
A system and method for controlling soot regeneration in a catalyst soot filter (“CSF”) of an exhaust system for a diesel engine by measuring the inlet temperature of a diesel oxidation...
7533010 Method and system for tread pattern noise optimization  
A method and system providing for tire tread design with improved noise characteristics is disclosed. The volume of air created by the lateral grooves that separate each tread block, referred to as...
7529653 Message packet logging in a distributed simulation system  
A distributed simulation system may include a plurality of nodes arranged to perform a simulation of a system under test. The plurality of nodes are configured to communicate simulation commands...
7529624 Method and apparatus for remote characterization of faults in the vicinity of boreholes  
A method and system for characterization of fault conditions within a subterranean volume. In one embodiment, the system comprises means for mathematically modeling stress conditions, to predict...
7519518 Method for assembling the finite element discretization of arbitrary weak equations, involving local or non-local multiphysics couplings  
Disclosed are techniques for representing and modeling one or more systems in which each system corresponds to an application mode. This may be done for one or more geometries using local and/or...