• External Aerodynamics
• UTM – Heat damage
• Engine Cooling
• Aero-acoustics
– Side mirror, Sun roof, Wiper, Fan
• HVAC – Ventilation synthesis with various modes
– Ratio on Volume rate of Ventilation duct
– Defog / Defrost
– Cowl plenum device
– Thermal comfort
• IC Engine & Peripheral devices
– In cylinder
– Intake & Exhaust ducts
– Pumps
• Others
– Lamp, Brake, Soiling Contamination, Fuel Tank
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Simulation Items in Automotive field
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External Simulations
Aerodynamics
• Challenges– Resolve pressure distribution around the
vehicle– Minimize vehicle drag
(to improve fuel economy)– Assess vehicle handling and stability
(side forces, lift)
• Advantages of ANSYS– High-end turbulence models
– Sophisticated and accurate numeric
– Highly efficient transient solvers
– Mesh-adapt-on-the-fly ability
– Industry-leading parallel scalability
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Aerodynamics
Aerodynamic Forces
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Rear Wake
Underbody fairingEngine room
Aerodynamics
Evolution of CdA
GMK Spark
GM Volt
BENZE BMW
GM K AVEO
Rear spoilerRear lamp, bumper radius
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Engine Cooling
• Objective– Flow rate through cooling package under
Idle condition and Max. vehicle speed– Coolant inlet and outlet temperatures
• Justifications for using CFD for the Engine cooling applications– Decide Opining area satisfying Engine
cooling although reducing CdA– Select an adequate Radiator and Fan – Decide whether of not installing sealing
and fairing in front of Radiator and under Engine
– Reduce cost (eliminate or reduce prototype testing)
• Given conditions:– Vehicle and fan speeds– Heat exchanger performance data
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Aero – acoustics: Sunroof buffeting
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Measurement
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Aero – acoustics: Side Window Buffeting
D. Hendriana, S. Sovani, and M. Schiemann, “On Simulating Passenger Car Side Window Buffeting,” SAE 2003-01-1316, 2003.
• Compressible flow (ideal gas) with CAA– RNG/LES Turbulent model – Second order for time discretization– Second order for space discretization– PISO for pressure-velocity coupling
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Aero – acoustics: Side Mirror
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Iso-contour of instantaneous vorticity magnitude (LES)
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Aero – acoustics: Ventilation Fan
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Internal Simulations
Ratio on Volume rate of Ventilation duct
• Air from the center inlets passes straight to the outlet
• Air from the side vents undergoes more circulation before exiting
• Temp. contours show the thermal distribution felt by the passengers
• Analyses of this type help engineers design ventilation systems that produce thermal comfort for all the passengers under a variety of conditions
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Defog / Defrost
• Procedure on Defrost simulation– Ice initially covers the windshield, warm
air from the defroster melts the ice– Uses a phase change model to track the
melting– CFD results predict thinning ice as well as
melted region
• Why is CFD important for Defrost performance???– Defrost performance in a new vehicle
development must satisfy the standard of government regulations Uses a phase change model to track the melting
– CFD Simulation can provide many countermeasures for defrost improvement
– CFD could reduce the budget and duration spent for performance improvement
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Cowl Plenum Device
• Objective– Evaluate duct performance in terms of
airflow efficiency– Predict precisely the behavior of water in
Cowl Plenum room, and evaluate if there is the ingress of water to HVAC or not
• Main parts– Grills, Deflector, Scoop plate, Entry area
of HVAC ,Cross area of Cowl Plenum room
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Thermal Comfort
• Thermal comfort is largely a state of mind, separate from equations for heat and mass transfer and energy balances
• The most common approach to characterize thermal comfort has been to correlate the results of psychological experiments to thermal analysis variables
• The level of comfort is often characterized using the ASHRAE thermal sensation scale, one International standard
• Main Parameters– Humidity, Radiation temperature,
clothing status, average surface temperature, averaging velocity
– PMV, PPD, ET
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ICE Simulation
In Cylinder
• Scope of WB-ICE Tool– Automated mesh generation
for all 4 stroke engines– Automated case setup for “cold-flow”
and “Combustion” type simulations– User hooks to setup case for
combustion simulation
WB-ICE DesignModeler
ANSYS Meshing
FLUENT Solver
CFD Post
Workbench IC Engine Workflow
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In Cylinder: Report
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Intake / Exhaust manifold
• Perform flow, thermal, species tracking (EGR) and/or combustion
• Conjugate heat transfer analysis including solid
• Steady-state flow bench analysis
• Transient– BC specified via tabular data– User-Defined-Function– Fully coupled to 1d engine simulation
codes
• Detailed model including– plenum and runners– throttle body and plate– exhaust gas re-circulation (EGR)
passage– positive crankcase ventilation (PCV)
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• Numerous pump classifications, based on displacement, design
• Pump classification based on displacement (amount of fluid delivered per cycle):– Non-positive displacement pumps:
discharge flow continuously– Positive displacement pumps: discharge
intermittently
• Rotary– Gerotor Pumps– Gear pumps– Lobe pumps– Screw pumps
• Reciprocating– Vane pumps– Piston pumps
Pump
Total head reduction due to Cavitations
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Various main parts
• Objective– Predict the precise thermal load at
main parts like REFLECTOR, LENS, HOUSING and BEZEL, which is related to thermal deformation.
– Understand the mechanism of generation and decay of Condensation on Lens
• Reason of Condensation in Lamp– Poor ventilation in Lamp– Unsuitable location of holes– Improper deployment of interior parts
• Boundary conditions are:– Radiation (DOM)– Conduction & Convection– EWFM for Condensation simulation
Lamp
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• Challenges– Design brakes and wheels that are
durable and can sustain variable loads– Predict stress and fatigue – Predict local temperature distributions
and thermal loads– Optimize brake venting
• Advantages of ANSYS– Flow and structural solution from the
same CAE vendor– Easy and seamless transfer of CFD and
FEA data between applications
Brake System
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• Vehicle driving through shallow water basin
• Identify the correlation between mass fraction and accumulation with photo of contamination
• CFD analysis: flow field, mass transfer and diffusion
• Evaluation: mass fraction next to the body surface regarded as indicator for accumulation of dirt
Contamination
Limitation Experiment
CFD
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Tank Sloshing
• Traditional approach for a simulation– Body force is needed because the
reference frame is not an inertial frame– Body force is modeled by changing
gravitational force through a scheme file
• Dynamic Mesh (DM) – The tank is moving in an absolute frame.
The tank velocity, as opposed to the acceleration, is specified using a UDF.
– Solid body motion is assigned to all cells and boundary faces. So, there is no special requirement on mesh element type. The same mesh from the traditional method can be used
– Since an absolute frame is used, no body force is needed
• Clocking & Sloshing Noises in a tank
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