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Once the International Searching Authority (ISA) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has determined that my international patent application "Full-surface detached vorticity method and system for solving fluid dynamics" (WO/2024/136634) , under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), meets all three criteria for patentability ( novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability ), it will be time to make an open offer to exploit such an invention (in the prosecution phase) through a Patent Licensing Agreement (PLA). Fig. 1 The generation of vorticity on surfaces is a purely inviscid mechanism (Morton, 1984, and Terrington et al., 2022). This time I will not write about the technical aspects of the patent (or how wonderful it is! ), since I did that in a previous post:  More patents, less papers (librepenzzzador.blogspot.com) . Now, I want to focus on my business proposal. Since I have some experience as an entrepreneur in engineering ( www. chuteshiut .co

The dynamics of a separated fluid flowing past an object is still a challenging problem in engineering, even in low-speed aerodynamics, where turbulence can be present, making its understanding and solution more difficult. For this reason, some numerical methods have been developed, most of them based on the Eulerian description of the Navier-Stokes equations, by measuring the fluid-flow variables at fixed points defined by a continuous spatial mesh, which in most cases includes several assumptions and empirically based models, to approximate (and artificially close ) the governing equations. In the first place, such methods are relatively computationally expensive, since they calculate the variables in the entire surrounding space, even far away from the object, where their measurement is of little value. Fig. 1 Mesh-based CFD simulation of a parabolic parachute canopy by κ-ω SST turbulence model (Pimentel, 2016). For several decades, the Boundary Element Method (BEM; e.g., panel meth