Patents by Inventor Bernd Crouse

Bernd Crouse has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11941331
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time. The method includes generating data for a visualization, with a location in the visualization corresponding to the particular location, and with the generated data for that location in the visualization indicating the occupation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu
  • Patent number: 11907625
    Abstract: Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a fluid simulation of a porous medium. These techniques involve retrieving a representation of a three dimensional porous medium, the representation including pore space corresponding to the porous medium, with the representation including at least one portion of under-resolved pore structure in the porous medium, defining a representative flow model that includes the under-resolved pore structure in the representation, and constructing by the computer system fluid force curves that correspond to fluid forces in the under-resolved pore structure in the representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otomo, Rafael Salazar Tio, Hudong Chen, Raoyang Zhang, Andrew Fager, Ganapathi Raman Balasubramanian, Bernd Crouse, Hongli Fan, Jingjing Yang
  • Publication number: 20230359794
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for determining the amount of oil removed by a miscible gas flood. One of the methods includes identifying locations of oil within a volume representing a reservoir rock sample. The method includes identifying locations of gas within the volume. The method also includes determining the amount of oil removed based on locations within the volume where oil is either coincident with the gas or is connected to the gas by a continuous oil path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu, Guangyuan Sun
  • Patent number: 11714040
    Abstract: Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed. These techniques include computer instructions that are encoded on computer storage media for determining wettability. The techniques use a numerical aging computation process to provide a representation of a wettability alteration of a physical rock sample in the presence of at least two fluids is disclosed. The techniques include retrieving a representation of a physical rock sample, the representation including pore space and grain space data corresponding to the physical rock sample, calculating local curvature for each surface in the pore space, determining from the calculated local curvature whether water-film breakage will occur, and classifying the wettability of the physical rock based on the determination of water-film breakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, David M. Freed, Ashraful Islam
  • Patent number: 11651125
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for determining the amount of oil removed by a miscible gas flood. One of the methods includes identifying locations of oil within a volume representing a reservoir rock sample. The method includes identifying locations of gas within the volume. The method also includes determining the amount of oil removed based on locations within the volume where oil is either coincident with the gas or is connected to the gas by a continuous oil path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu, Guangyuan Sun
  • Patent number: 11613984
    Abstract: Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for determining an amount of hydrocarbon recoverable from porous reservoir rock by a miscible gas flood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Ganapathi Balasubramanian
  • Publication number: 20230077778
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for determining the amount of oil removed by a miscible gas flood. One of the methods includes identifying locations of oil within a volume representing a reservoir rock sample. The method includes identifying locations of gas within the volume. The method also includes determining the amount of oil removed based on locations within the volume where oil is either coincident with the gas or is connected to the gas by a continuous oil path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu, Guangyuan Sun
  • Publication number: 20220414295
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu
  • Patent number: 11530598
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for determining the amount of oil removed by a miscible gas flood. One of the methods includes identifying locations of oil within a volume representing a reservoir rock sample. The method includes identifying locations of gas within the volume. The method also includes determining the amount of oil removed based on locations within the volume where oil is either coincident with the gas or is connected to the gas by a continuous oil path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu, Guangyuan Sun
  • Publication number: 20220398807
    Abstract: Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a simulation of physical properties of a porous medium. The features include receiving a micro-CT 3D image that captures a representative elemental volume of the porous medium, the porous medium defined as having mineral types and fluid types with individual grains and grain to grain contacts, labeling the micro-CT 3D image as individual voxels according to mineral and fluid types and labeling the mineral type voxels as belonging to separated and fixed individual grains. The features also include transforming the labeled voxels into an unstructured conformal mesh representation for all grains and applying the unstructured conformal mesh representation to a parametric cohesive contact engine, with the parametric cohesive contact engine executing a parametric cohesive contact model that has an adjustable parameter, a critical separation ?0 conditioned according to consolidation level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Zhuang Sun, Rafael Salazar-Tio, Andrew Fager, Bernd Crouse
  • Patent number: 11461512
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time. The method includes generating data for a visualization, with a location in the visualization corresponding to the particular location, and with the generated data for that location in the visualization indicating the occupation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu
  • Publication number: 20220207219
    Abstract: Disclosed are computer implemented techniques for conducting a fluid simulation of a porous medium. These techniques involve retrieving a representation of a three dimensional porous medium, the representation including pore space corresponding to the porous medium, with the representation including at least one portion of under-resolved pore structure in the porous medium, defining a representative flow model that includes the under-resolved pore structure in the representation, and constructing by the computer system fluid force curves that correspond to fluid forces in the under-resolved pore structure in the representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Otomo, Rafael Salazar Tio, Hudong Chen, Raoyang Zhang, Andrew Fager, Ganapathi Raman Balasubramanian, Bernd Crouse, Hongli Fan, Jingjing Yang
  • Patent number: 11118449
    Abstract: This description relates to computer simulation of physical processes, such as computer simulation of multi-species flow through porous media including the determination/estimation of relative permeabilities for the multi-species flow through the porous media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Xiaobo Nie, Raoyang Zhang, Yong Li, Hiroshi Otomo, Hudong Chen, Andrew Fager
  • Publication number: 20210062638
    Abstract: Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for determining an amount of hydrocarbon recoverable from porous reservoir rock by a miscible gas flood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Ganapathi Balasubramanian
  • Publication number: 20200063532
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for determining the amount of oil removed by a miscible gas flood. One of the methods includes identifying locations of oil within a volume representing a reservoir rock sample. The method includes identifying locations of gas within the volume. The method also includes determining the amount of oil removed based on locations within the volume where oil is either coincident with the gas or is connected to the gas by a continuous oil path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu, Guangyuan Sun
  • Patent number: 10550690
    Abstract: This description relates to computer simulation of physical processes, such as computer simulation of multi-species flow through porous media including the determination/estimation of relative permeabilities for the multi-species flow through the porous media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Xiaobo Nie, Raoyang Zhang, Yong Li, Hiroshi Otomo, Hudong Chen, Andrew Fager, David M. Feed
  • Publication number: 20190368344
    Abstract: This description relates to computer simulation of physical processes, such as computer simulation of multi-species flow through porous media including the determination/estimation of relative permeabilities for the multi-species flow through the porous media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Xiaobo Nie, Raoyang Zhang, Yong Li, Hiroshi Otomo, Hudong Chen, Andrew Fager
  • Publication number: 20190212241
    Abstract: Techniques including methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed. These techniques include computer instructions that are encoded on computer storage media for determining wettability. The techniques use a numerical aging computation process to provide a representation of a wettability alteration of a physical rock sample in the presence of at least two fluids is disclosed. The techniques include retrieving a representation of a physical rock sample, the representation including pore space and grain space data corresponding to the physical rock sample, calculating local curvature for each surface in the pore space, determining from the calculated local curvature whether water-film breakage will occur, and classifying the wettability of the physical rock based on the determination of water-film breakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, David M. Freed, Ashraful Islam
  • Publication number: 20190086250
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for fluid blob tracking. One of the methods includes identifying, by a computer system, a connected fluid phase region in a flow simulation. The method includes tracking, by the computer system, the connected fluid phase region over a first timeframe and a second timeframe. The method also includes determining, by the computer system, movement of the connected fluid phase region from the first timeframe to the second timeframe based on the tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, David M. Freed, Nils Koliha
  • Publication number: 20190050508
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products can be used for visualizing the behavior of flow of two or more fluid phases, wherein a fluid phase behavior is represented in a visualization. One of the methods includes determining an occupation time, which is the amount of elapsed time from when a fluid phase first occupies a particular location until a second time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Bernd Crouse, Rui Xu