"simulate conditions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to imitate or create similar circumstances or situations. Example: The scientists built a machine to simulate conditions found on Mars in order to study the effects on plant growth.
The authors designed complicated games to simulate conditions of scarcity.
These heating rates simulate conditions of the combustion front.
Diamond-making techniques have been embraced by Earth scientists in their efforts to simulate conditions in the Earth's deep interior.
The air was pumped out to simulate conditions in space, liquid nitrogen flooded an inner chamber and super-cooled helium was pumped into a smaller interior chamber.
Laboratory experiments were designed to simulate conditions occurring during single-well, "push pull" tests.
At the heart of the project, researchers will adapt GISS's global climate model for Earth, and use it to simulate conditions on other planets.
The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, accelerates beams of protons to immense energy and then smashes them together to simulate conditions in the early universe.
In the weeks since the blackout, electricity experts, including some involved in the government investigation, have turned to PowerWorld, a sophisticated computer program that can simulate conditions on the entire North American grid.
The most striking aspect of the scheme is the new underground facility, extending from disused railway tunnels, will include a new academy featuring ten pitches that will simulate conditions overseas through use of different types of synthetic grass.
Such exercises attempt to simulate conditions that troops are likely to encounter: in this case, dealing not so much with enemy soldiers, but with confrontations with angry civilians, demonstrators and feuding ethnic groups.
For that, we run controlled experiments using computerized climate models that simulate conditions in previous decades, with and without the variable of human-generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
