VRcontext: Revolutionizing operations efficiency

VRcontext is fully committed to supporting the oil and gas industry and has, therefore, linked its product with that of a major computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software developer.

The VRcontext CFD module post-processes and visualizes simulation results that were previously computed by a simulation application such as FLACS^® (GexCon). The main application thus far has been in the area of visualization of gas and smoke propagation embedded in the complete model of the asset.

 

By creating a library of pattern propagations for different wind orientations and for a subset of critical equipment, the location of an incident can be identified rapidly based on sensor input.

 

VRcontext has also developed a separate real-time visualization module for gas and fumes based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), a particle-based methodology in which gas and fumes are represented as a collection of particles. This approach, which is quite popular in the game industry, provides qualitative results that areoften sufficient for running emergency escape simulations and training.