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CFD Automotive

Driving Innovation in the Automotive Industry through CFD Simulation

1. Reduce emissions and energy consumption
2. Develop hybrid powertrain alternatives
3. Optimize thermal efficiency
4. Meet customer demands
5. Extend Vehicle Range
6. Improve vehicle reliability
7. Build a reputation as an innovator and technology leader
8. Cut cost and time-to-market

 
As covered earlier about the business and design challenges you are facing as a result of these trends, such as:

• Reducing emissions and energy consumption by optimizing thermal efficiency and developing powertrain alternatives.
• Ensuring that electric vehicles meet the demands of customers by extending their range and improving vehicle reliability.
• Differentiating yourself in the competitive market and securing a long term business future by building a reputation as an innovation and technology leader. To do so, you must be able to look at trade-offs of new innovative systems as well as ensure system durability under normal and extreme driving conditions. And of course, While balancing performance, the new innovative technology must be brought to market, quickly, and efficiently while reducing the cost for production.

 
These can all be summarized by the over-arching need to discover better designs, faster –  and this can be accomplished by driving innovation through simulation.  And of course, that’s why we’re here today: to share some insights about simulation and how, through using it in new and deliberate ways, it is helping companies achieve their innovation targets.

Innovation Through Design Exploration

With STAR-CCM+ You Are Able to Automate The Design Exploration and Optimization Process

Featured CFD Automotive Case Studies: CNH Industrial – Using Predictive DEM and Thermal Management to improve harvester design

Designers of commercial vehicles are under ever-increasing pressure to cut program development times and costs while at the same time meeting increasingly rigorous demands of reduced emissions and fuel consumption. While meeting these depends, off-highway manufactures need to develop vehicles for harsh environment with regards to temperature/dirt extremes. While also being flexible for design variants to meet their client’s requirements.

Off-Highway IEMs are meeting these demands using engineering simulation. Through a digital prototype, OEM’s can quickly evaluate different design changes, before expensive hardware has been built.

CNH Industrial is a global leader in a wide variety of vehicles from agricultural to construction equipment. They have been witness to change in the industry where 10 years ago, it was more just curiosity, to the past few years, simulation is helping CNH design products which meet and exceed the requirements.

Before CFD, CNH had no choice to rely on experimental testing, and process of trial and error. The success relied heavily on the experience of their engineering teams. Using this, they were able to design/build some high-quality machines, the cost of making a wrong design decision would only be exposed by testing, late in the design cycle was very high. By working with simulation, and testing teams together, CNH was able to reduce their time to market and costs, while enabling to bring new innovative ideas to push new frontiers of the commercial vehicle design.

Over the past decade,  CFD simulations at CNH has involved from being an interesting curiosity to occupying a central role in the commercial vehicle development process.