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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Yahong Zhang, Canton, MI (US);
Craig Richard Wetzel, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jeremy Howe, Grosse Ile, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/60 (2006.01); G06F 17/10 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); F01N 13/20 (2010.01); F01N 13/08 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5095 (2013.01); F01N 13/082 (2013.01); F01N 13/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of designing an exhaust assembly that includes the steps: developing an initial exhaust assembly design; evaluating the initial design based on a design guide; developing an interim exhaust assembly design, or a plurality of interim exhaust assembly designs, based on the initial design and a parametric model; evaluating the interim design or designs using a computational fluid dynamics model; and developing a final exhaust assembly design based on the parametric and the fluid dynamics models.