Comprehensive Underhood Thermal Management

Our comprehensive underhood thermal management solution offers full accounting of radiation from hundreds of surfaces, conjugate heat transfer with hundreds of solids, and shell conduction in dozens of baffles and zero-thickness surfaces. ANSYS tools provide a variety of detailed models and submodels:

Flow solvers: fast, accurate, steady-state and transient flow solvers
Thermal solver: fully integrated to solve conduction, convection and radiation
Turbulence: largest set of turbulence models in the commercial CFD sector
Conduction: conjugate heat transfer with hundreds of fully meshed participating solid components
Shell conduction: multi-layer shell conduction
Convection: accurate natural convection modeling with several models
Radiation: largest set of turbulence models in the commercial CFD sector, with discrete ordinates and surface-to-surface radiation models
Heat exchanger models: dual cell and macro-based; porous media models for heat exchangers and grills
Fan models: MRF, plane fan and sliding mesh
Exhaust skin temperature model
Meshing: fast, robust CAD-to-mesh process
Automation: highly customizable, scriptable and automatable process
Optimization: adjoint solver, parameterization and morphing
High-performance computing: industry-leading scalability up to 10,000+ cores
Structural solver: seamless coupling with fluid and thermal solvers for thermal structural durability