Automotive

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Cruise balances vehicle attributes such as fuel economy, emissions, performance and drive quality.

• Multi-parameter sensitivity analysis of any scalar, characteristic or value within a characteristic or map.
• Overall component variation analysis for finding the right combination of various powertrain components quickly.
• DOE plans can be imported and exported.
• Advanced results representation (variation cubes, trade-off diagrams).
• Significant reduction in manual work for carrying out driveline studies and in the risk of making mistakes.
• Achievement of the best compromise between performance, fuel economy, emissions and drivability in one integrated simulation loop.

 

http://www.altairhyperworks.com/HWTemp1Product.aspx?product_id=31&top_nav_str=1&red=yes

 

          

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GT-SUITE, which contains GT-POWER, is a single software tool for modeling and simulation of systems in automotive and transportation engineering and beyond. It is based on a multi-physics platform, but offers higher-level, added-value toolboxes specifically tailored to a continually broadening set of applications:

• Engine performance modeling (including combustion and turbocharging)
• Analysis of measured engine cylinder pressure (combustion profiles)
• Acoustics of intakes and exhausts
• Exhaust aftertreatment
• Sil, HiL and Real-Time simulation of engine, vehicle, and cooling
• Vehicle dynamics (drive cycles, drivelines)
• Hybrid and electric vehicles, fuel cells
• Cooling systems and vehicle thermal management
• Underhood cooling module analysis (3-D solution with COOL3D)
• Lubrication circuits and bearings
• Fuel injection systems
• Hydraulics and pneumatics (valve actuators, brakes, steering, power hydraulics)
• Valvetrain/Camshaft kinematics and dynamics
• Cranktrain kinematics and dynamics (balancing, engine bearings and mounts)
• Crankshaft durability and fatigue
• Chain, gear and belt system dynamics (timing drives)

GT-SUITE, being a single program, allows modeling of these applications both independently, as has traditionally been the norm in the industry, or with several of these systems in one model to get the full integrated effect of the system. For example consider the cooling circuit with Charged-Air-Cooler & EGR Cooler and its link to engine performance: this can be readily analyzed in a single model for warm-up analysis & for the design of combined cooling circuit and engine.

 

http://www.gtisoft.com/GT-SUITE_Product.html

 

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HyperCrash HyperCrash is a robust pre-processing environment specifically designed to automate the creation of high-fidelity models for crash analysis and safety evaluation. Developed in cooperation with the industry's leading manufacturers, HyperCrash increases departmental efficiency and results accuracy through process driven workflows and automated model checking and correction.

HyperCrash includes a robust set of user-utilities for the most intricate crash and safety modeling tasks including; part replacement and positioning, dummy positioning and seatbelt routing.

Combining the power of an intuitive GUI with an automated set of proven crash and safety modeling procedures, HyperCrash enables users to realize unprecedented time savings while achieving high-quality, accurate results.

 

http://www.altairhyperworks.com/HWTemp1Product.aspx?product_id=31&top_nav_str=1&red=yes

 

         

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LS-Dyna is widely used by the automotive industry to analyze vehicle designs. LS-DYNA accurately predicts a car's behavior in a collision and the effects of the collision upon the car's occupants. With LS-DYNA, automotive companies and their suppliers can test car designs without having having to tool or experimentally test a prototype, thus saving time and expense. LS-DYNA is a general purpose transient dynamic finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. It is optimized for shared and distributed memory Unix, Linux, and Windows based, platforms.

http://www.lstc.com/lsdyna.htm

 

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PAMCRASH is an explicit Finite-Element program. Designed with material laws and efficient contact algorithms, it is well suited for crash simulation. Special features such as airbag simulation complete add substantially to the programs features. Applications at the professorship are crash simulation of components which has been executed at the crash test facility. Interaction of vehicles with deformable soils are investigated, too.

 

http://www.hsu-hh.de

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