SBIR Phase II: Virtual Prototyping Tool for Complex Flows of Polymers and Suspensions

SBIR 第二阶段：聚合物和悬浮液复杂流动的虚拟原型工具

• 批准号: 0750465
• 负责人: Ilya Staroselsky
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Exa Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2010-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0750465&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Virtual; Prototyping

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop an engineering design level simulation tool for non-Newtonian fluid systems used in advanced materials engineering/process design. The project will implement innovative physics modeling of rheological properties and will leverage the full computational strength of the company's PowerFLOW simulator, including automatic grid generation for arbitrarily complex geometry and perfect parallel scalability on cluster computers using hundreds of million computational cells. This project will convert the hydrokinetic software resulting from Phase I project into a stable and robust technology platform that can be fully commercialized. The broader impact/commercial potential from the technology will be virtual design tools to overcome physical and/or engineering limits in flow simulations of chemicals, food products, pharmaceuticals, and nutritional processing, disk drive manufacturing, environmentally benign processes, semiconductor equipment, anti-icing aircraft sprays, etc. The tool for non-Newtonian flow prediction will open new commercial markets for the PowerFLOW technology. Key advantages include grid generation and set up times, thus enabling shortened product/process development cycles, optimization to improve yield and energy efficiency, and environmental improvements.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II期项目将为高级材料工程/过程设计中使用的非牛顿流体系统开发工程设计水平模拟工具。该项目将对流变学特性实施创新的物理建模，并利用公司的PowerFlow模拟器的完整计算强度，包括使用数百万个计算单元格对群集计算机上的自动网格产生和完美的并行可扩展性。该项目将将I阶段项目产生的基本动力学软件转换为一个可以完全商业化的稳定技术平台。该技术的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是虚拟设计工具，以克服化学，食品，药品和营养加工的流程模拟中的物理和/或工程限制糖霜飞机喷雾剂等。非牛顿流量预测的工具将为电力流技术开放新的商业市场。关键优势包括网格产生和设置时间，从而缩短了产品/过程开发周期，优化以提高产量和能源效率以及环境改善。