Patents by Inventor Duane R. Hixon

Duane R. Hixon 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE EFFICIENT CALCULATION OF UNSTEADY PROCESSES ON ARBITRARY SPACE-TIME DOMAINS
    Publication number: 20080300835
    Abstract: The Space-Time Mapping Analysis (STMA) method and system provides an engineering method and/or system for modeling and/or analyzing and/or designing and/or building and/or operating complex physical processes, components, devices, and phenomena. STMA can be used in a way for modifying and/or improving the design of many different products, components, processes, and devices, for example. Any physical system, whether existing or proposed, which exhibits, for example, unsteady flow phenomena, might be modeled by the STMA. Thus, STMA can be implemented as a part of an engineering system for design improvements and/or modifications and/or evaluations. The STMA system and/or method uses a space-time mapping technique wherein the space and time directions are treated in an equivalent way, such that, rather than solving a three-dimensional unsteady problem by sweeping in the time direction from an initial point in time to a final point in time, the problem is solved as a four-dimensional problem in space-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: H2 ADVANCED CONCEPTS, INC.
    Inventor: Duane R. Hixon
  • Method and system for the efficient calculation of unsteady processes on arbitrary space-time domains
    Patent number: 7359841
    Abstract: The Space-Time Mapping Analysis (STMA) method and system provides an engineering method and/or system for modeling and/or analyzing and/or designing and/or building and/or operating complex physical processes, components, devices, and phenomena. STMA can be used in a way for modifying and/or improving the design of many different products, components, processes, and devices, for example. Any physical system, whether existing or proposed, which exhibits, for example, unsteady flow phenomena, might be modeled by the STMA. Thus, STMA can be implemented as a part of an engineering system for design improvements and/or modifications and/or evaluations. The STMA system and/or method uses a space-time mapping technique wherein the space and time directions are treated in an equivalent way, such that, rather than solving a three-dimensional unsteady problem by sweeping in the time direction from an initial point in time to a final point in time, the problem is solved as a four-dimensional problem in space-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Hixon Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Duane R. Hixon