Appeal No. 94-2299
Application No. 07/623,324
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 3
through 5.
The disclosed invention relates to a method in a
multiblock system for iteratively processing
pseudocompressibility equations as a prediction of steady,
incompressible fluid flow over a given geometry.
Claim 3 is the only independent claim on appeal, and it
reads as follows:
3. In a multiblock system for iteratively processing the
pseudocompressibility equations as a prediction of steady,
incompressible fluid flow over a given geometry, a method of
coupling solutions to the pseudocompressibility equations
between blocks of the multiblock system comprising the steps
of:
creating an overlapping multiblock grid model of the given
geometry, each block being defined by boundary nodes and
containing interior nodes wherein boundary nodes from one
block overlap to interior nodes of an adjoining block;
updating, at each iteration, boundary nodes from the one block
overlapping to interior nodes of the adjoining block, where
updated boundary nodes for the one block are equal to a
difference between corresponding boundary nodes for the one
block and overlapped interior nodes of the adjoining block;
and
processing, utilizing the pseudocompressibility equations,
both boundary and interior nodes of each block according to a
central finite differencing method wherein equation solutions
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