Automated Meshing for Aero-Thermal Analysis of Complex Automotive Geometries 2011-01-0523
Successful product development, especially in motorsport, increasingly depends not just on the ability to simulate aero-thermal behavior of complex geometrical configurations, but also the ability to automate these simulations within a workflow and perform as many simulations as possible within constrained time frames. The core of these aero-thermal simulations - and usually the main bottleneck - is generating the computational mesh.
This paper describes recent work aimed at developing a mesh generator which can reliably produce meshes for geometries of essentially arbitrary complexity in an automated manner and fast enough to keep up with the pace of an engineering development program. Our goal is to be able to script the mesh generation within an automated workflow - and forget it.
Citation: Dawes, W., Kellar PhD, W., Harvey PhD, S., and Eccles PhD, N., "Automated Meshing for Aero-Thermal Analysis of Complex Automotive Geometries," SAE Technical Paper 2011-01-0523, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-0523. Download Citation
Author(s):
William Nicholas Dawes, William Kellar PhD, Simon Harvey PhD, Neil Eccles PhD
Affiliated:
Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge Flow Solutions Ltd
Pages: 7
Event:
SAE 2011 World Congress & Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Product development
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Motorsports
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