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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Genesee Valley Innovations, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Søren Taverniers, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adrian Lew, Stanford, CA (US);
Svyatoslav Korneev, San Jose, CA (US);
Christoforos Somarakis, Gilroy, CA (US);
Morad Behandish, San Mateo, CA (US);
Genesee Valley Innovations, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for determining a damping rate of unforced oscillations of a meniscus are disclosed. An example method includes receiving input describing a shape of a container, physical parameters of a liquid inside the container, and an equilibrium shape of the meniscus. The method also includes generating a mesh conforming to the shape of the container and generating a discrete version of a continuous eigenvalue problem based on this mesh. The method also includes computing, at appropriate mesh nodes, values for pressure, velocity components, and meniscus surface deformation corresponding to a suitable number of least-damped late-time oscillation modes of the liquid and computing an angular frequency and damping rate of these least-damped late-time oscillation modes from the discrete version of the continuous eigenvalue problem. The method also includes identifying the mode that has the lowest damping rate and computing a liquid relaxation time by inverting the damping rate of the identified mode.