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Automotive engines are undergoing continuous metamorphoses. The demand for higher performance and lower fuel consumption has led to the development of smaller, lighter engines. Changes in engine design can cause unforeseen failures which can be prevented at the design stage with ANSYS.
Control of engine temperature is an essential part of engine design, because of performance and durability issues. Software from ANSYS gives you the ability to model this complex geometry and provide an analysis of the heat transfer.
Underhood thermal protection is an issue in vehicle development due to higher output engines, tighter packaging and smaller engine compartments. In addition, it can be an extremely difficult analysis due to the complicated geometry. Typical configurations consist of heat-exchangers, fans and their shrouding. Performance depends upon both active components such as fans and passive components such as air intakes, heat exchangers and the engine. Using ANSYS ICEM CFD technology for meshing and ANSYS CFX computational fluid dynamics software can assist in modeling this challenging problem.
