Kirt A Chapman

US Patent:

8630830, Jan 14, 2014

Filed:

Oct 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/901850

Inventors:

Craig A. Wobick - Seabrook TX, US
Kirt Auldwin Chapman - Webster TX, US
Peter L. McCloud - Shoreacres TX, US

Assignee:

The Boeing Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G06G 7/50

US Classification:

703 9, 703 6

Abstract:

A thermal fluid system modeler including a plurality of individual components. A solution vector is configured and ordered as a function of one or more inlet dependencies of the plurality of individual components. A fluid flow simulator simulates thermal energy being communicated with the flowing fluid and between first and second components of the plurality of individual components. The simulation extends from an initial time to a later time step and bounds heat transfer to be substantially between the flowing fluid, walls of tubes formed in each of the individual components of the plurality, and between adjacent tubes. Component parameters of the solution vector are updated with simulation results for each of the plurality of individual components of the simulation.