Rotating Equipment in the Automotive Industry

Used by rotating equipment designers in varied industries, ANSYS provides the software tools of choice for many of the world's leading automotive parts manufacturing companies. Using ANSYS tools can increase performance and longevity of rotating equipment.

Designers of cooling fans, torque converters, turbochargers and water pumps require specific computational fluid dynamics capabilities in order to obtain fast and accurate answers. ANSYS CFX provides these results through:

• Time-saving specialized tools for blade geometry
• Simple and effective transient rotor/stator interaction
• Accurate and robust solutions through stage and frozen rotor multiple frame of reference interfaces
• Accuracy due to second order transient discretization
• Automated turbo pre and post-processing utilities
• Fluid structure interaction
• Ability to fit into your own design system through integration with CAD
• A single environment for structural, mechanical and CFD analyses from geometry, meshing to postprocessing.

CFX analysis of a torque converter (left) and an automotive water pump (right).

Pump picture courtesy of Engineered Machine Products.