A Computational Fluid Mechanics System to Support the Optimum Design of the Infant Incubator

Abstract

In order to introduce the computer aided engineering (CAE) technology to the design of the infant incubator, we developed an interface software system to optimize the internal environment of an infant incubator, based upon series of our previous computational fluid mechanical studies. Developed system could semiautomatically generate a computational fluid mechanical model of an incubator using the coordinate values of important structures in the incubator from a CAD (computer aided design) data file. It can also set the condition of the computation and the obtained computational results agreed well with the correspondent experimental results.