Hanau / September 29, 2020 - September 30, 2020
automotive CAE Grand Challenge
[The conference has been postponed to September 29-30, 2020; original date April 2020]
[The conference has been postponed to September 29-30, 2020; original date April 2020]
In the last 30 years computer simulation has become an indispensable tool of automotive development. Despite of significant progress in simulation technology and impressive results in industrial application there remains a number of challenges. The automotive CAE Grand Challenge stimulates the exchange between users, scientists and software developers in order to solve these challenges.
We are on site with our experts from the department »Transport Processes«, among others Dr. Jörg Kuhnert reports about our software tool MESHFREE. With MESHFREE, we have been providing a software product for the grid-free simulation of physical processes in cooperation with the Fraunhofer SCAI since 2018. The tool combines the expertise of both institutes in the field of gridless scientific computing and has a broad range of applications and its origin in the automotive industry.
In addition, our spin-off fleXstructures is represented at the event and will present IPS Cable Simulation; a software tool that is used in the automotive and commercial vehicle industry as well as in aerospace and mechanical engineering to ensure the efficient laying of flexible components such as cables.
Use case water management
Problems in the automotive industry have been in the focus of MESHFREE's development for years. With virtualization in the early stages of design, problems can be avoided and design aspects optimized long before the first expensive prototype is built.
MESHFREE successfully simulates a wide range of automotive applications, such as water crossing and water management, fuel filling and sloshing, interactions with soil and sand during a crash as well as transmission components. More in the video.