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

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将开发用于先进材料工程/工艺设计的非牛顿流体系统的工程设计级模拟工具。该项目将实现流变特性的创新物理建模，并将利用该公司PowerFLOW模拟器的全部计算能力，包括自动生成任意复杂几何形状的网格，以及使用数亿计算单元的集群计算机上的完美并行可扩展性。该项目将把第一阶段项目产生的流体动力学软件转换成一个稳定和强大的技术平台，可以完全商业化。该技术的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是虚拟设计工具，以克服化学品，食品，药品和营养加工，磁盘驱动器制造，环境友好工艺，半导体设备，防结冰飞机喷雾等流动模拟的物理和/或工程限制。主要优势包括电网生成和设置时间，从而缩短产品/工艺开发周期，优化以提高产量和能源效率，并改善环境。

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.