Systems and methods establish, activate, and deactivate variant choices within an acausal physical component model of a physical system. The systems and methods utilize variant connector blocks to establish cut points in a physical network defined by the physical model. The cut points may be programmatically controlled to activate and/or deactivate a variant choice. The variant connector blocks may include internal connections that may be programmatically controlled to be either open or closed in order to cut or include a variant choice in the acausal physical component model. Variant conditions or labels may be associated with the internal connections, and the systems and methods may evaluate the variant conditions and/or examine the labels to determine whether the internal connections are open or closed.

Described are computer-related techniques for determining rotation direction of an axial fan for use in fluid flow simulations. The techniques involve receiving by a computer processing system digital data of a three dimensional representation of an axial fan having plural fan blade, determining by the computer processing system from the data of three dimensional representation of the axial fan, at least a single centerline of a single blade of the axial fan from a two dimensional projection of the axial fan, and calculating by the computer processing system based on the initial valve of fan rotation, an actual value of fan rotational direction.

A film deposition system according to the present embodiment includes a film deposition apparatus, and a computer, in which the film deposition apparatus includes a film deposition chamber in which a plurality of deposition species are installable, and the computer includes a calculation region that calculates based on a calculation model having an Ising model or QUBO, and predict a time required for film deposition when a disposition of the deposition species is set.

Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving, by a computing device, parameters of the fractured well, wherein the fractured well comprises a wellbore and one or more hydraulic fractures extending from the wellbore; generating, by the computing device and based on the parameters of the fractured well, an equivalent complex well that represents the fractured well; and executing, by the computing device and using the equivalent complex well, a simulation that simulates the performance of the fractured well.

Methods to design centered imaging systems by solving differential equations derived from Fermat's principle consist of a sequence of (moveable or fixed) spherical or aspherical surfaces, or combinations thereof. The power series solution approach allow calculating of a predefined number of surfaces parameters equal to a number of selected aberration terms to vanish nominally. The methods provide mapping functions coefficients that allow describing exactly where arbitrary rays intersect each individual surface.

A film deposition system according to the present embodiment includes a film deposition apparatus, and a computer, in which the film deposition apparatus includes a film deposition chamber in which a plurality of deposition species are installable, and the computer includes a calculation region that calculates based on a calculation model having an Ising model or QUBO, and predict a time required for film deposition when a disposition of the deposition species is set.

A non-contact method of characterizing the isostatic strength of a ceramic member or article includes capturing a digital image of the ceramic article, and then forming a two-dimensional representation of the ceramic article and the web therein based on the captured digital image. The method also includes performing finite-element analysis on the two-dimensional representation of the ceramic article using a select amount of simulated isostatic pressure to determine a maximum stress value within the two-dimensional representation of the web. The method further includes using the maximum stress value to characterize the isostatic strength of the ceramic article.

Sequential hypothesis testing in a digital medium environment is described using continuous data. To begin, a model is received that defines at least one data distribution. Testing data is also received that describes an effect of user interactions with the plurality of options of digital content on achieving an action using continuous non-binary data. Values of parameters of the model are then estimated for each option of the plurality of options based on the testing data. In one example. A variance estimate is then generated based on the estimated values of the parameters of the model for each option of the plurality of options. From this, a determination is made as to a decision boundary based on the variance estimate and an estimate for a mean value of each option of the plurality of options based on the testing data.

In a method for manufacturing prestressed shells having tunable bistability, in order to determine the appropriate prestress to be applied to the bistable structure/shell, it provides: clamping a shell by applying a predetermined curvature on a portion of its edge; defining a discrete shell model dependent on a small number of configuration parameters q_i, (i<5), by projecting the non-linear shell model of Marguerre-von Krmn onto an appropriate finite dimensional space so that the projection does not significantly alter the strain elastic energy; tracing the stability maps in the space of the design parameters by minimizing the discrete representation of the strain elastic energy E(q_i;p_i) thus obtained; and choosing the design parameters providing the prestress needed to obtain the desired response in terms of project requirements.

A simulation method predicts a behavior of a curable composition in a process of bringing droplets of the curable composition arranged on first and second members into contact with each other, and forming a film of the curable composition on the first member. The method includes inputting a physical property value of a gas between the first and second members, inputting a movement profile of the second member with respect to the first member when bringing the droplets of the curable composition on the first and second members into contact with each other, obtaining a pressure of the gas between the first and second members based on the physical property value and the input movement profile, and predicting, based on the pressure, an amount of a residual gas confined among the droplets by the contact between the droplets and the second member.