Data processing: structural design – modeling – simulation – and em – Simulating nonelectrical device or system – Fluid
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-29
2009-11-10
Shah, Kamini (Department: 2128)
Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and em
Simulating nonelectrical device or system
Fluid
C703S010000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07617082
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method, a system and a program storage device containing instructions for simulating the flow of fluid in a physical system using a composition-based extensible object-oriented program. A computer program includes: (i) a framework subsystem providing a graph package, a compute package and a property package; (ii) an engine subsystem including engine subsystem packages for performing numerical simulation, the engine subsystem packages including a linear solver package and a non-linear solver package; and (iii) a set of model components providing physical and numerical modeling behaviors utilized by the engine subsystem, the model components including at least one of a reservoir model, a well model, an aquifer model, a fluid model and a SCAL model. The framework subsystem, the engine subsystem and the model components work with one other to simulate the flow of fluid. Preferably, a partition package is used to create a partition of subsets of node and edge indices which can be used optimize computations by the program.
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Byer Thomas J.
Childs Paul
DeBaun David R.
Alhija Saif
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Northcutt Christopher D.
Schlumberger Technology Corporation
Schulte Richard J.
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