Vehicle Exterior Design Software Solutions
Delivering high-performance with compelling aesthetics through simulation.
ANSYS APPLICATIONS
Optimizing Vehicle Exteriors with Simulation
Simulation empowers designers and engineers to deliver a high-impact aesthetic appearance with performance that exceeds customer expectations. By lowering drag and reducing weight, fuel efficiency and range are improved. Noise management enhances the passenger experience while structural analysis optimizes material use without compromising safety. Water and thermal management simulations ensure the vehicle will perform even in the most challenging conditions.
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External Aerodynamics
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Acoustics
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Thermal Management
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Water Management and Soiling
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Structural Integrity
Drag and Noise Reduction
Accurate and fast external aerodynamic and aeroacoustics simulations identify areas of high drag and noise contribution, and lets them be quantified, reduced and optimized.
Water Management and Soiling
Water management is critical for safety and performance. Simulation enables the prediction of soiling patterns, water wading loads and quantification of sensor degradation, all of which are costly to repeatedly determine through physical testing.
Thermal Management
Conjugate heat transfer simulations enable optimized design tradeoffs between aerodynamics and thermal management, providing insight into cooling system performance and power requirements across a range of operating conditions.
Structural integrity
Combine implicit and explicit solvers with workflows for design and print additive manufacturing. A materials intelligence platform enables engineers to optimize designs, predict fatigue life and balance weight and cost against performance.
Featured Products
CFD software known for its advanced physics modeling and renowned for industry leading accuracy.
- Modern user-friendly interface
- Single window workflow—pre to post-processing
- Streamlined meshing and physics workflows
- Advanced physics modeling
- Efficient meshing and solver HPC scaling
Ansys Minerva, powered by Aras, is an enterprise-level, purpose-built simulation process and data management solution that enhances engineering productivity with an intuitive, easy-to-use, web-based user interface catering to all simulation workflows. Minerva is vendor-neutral and allows integration with a host of Ansys and third-party simulation and PLM software.
- Access and reuse simulation data
- Well-coordinated simulation process management
- HPC job submission and data management
- Project awareness with Role-based dashboards
- Access to simulation insights by non-experts
- Synchronize and exchange data with enterprise integration
This nimble 3D modeling tool quickly preps geometrics models for simulation.
- De-feature CAD Models, extract fluid domains or simplify models for simulation
- STL prep for 3D Printing
- Leverage scan data to reverse-engineer new parts
- Create sheet metal parts, jigs and fixtures for manufacturing
- Quickly create geometry from scratch
- Works with any CAD file
Solve broad structural analysis needs with a suite of finite element analysis (FEA) solutions that provides in-depth analysis of structural and coupled-field behaviors.
- Easy to Use, Multi-Purpose Tool
- Persistent, Dependable Solver Technology
- Dynamic, Integrated Platform
Engage with a powerful, explicit simulation tool with integration into Ansys Mechanical. A large array of capabilities and material models enable complex models with great scalability.
- Tackle simulations that are highly nonlinear
- Simulate extreme deformation problems
- Solve multiphysics problems with Incompressible CFD (ICFD), Electromagnetics (EM) and CESE /Compressible CFD and Chemistry solvers
Fast-start Materials Data Management
- User-friendly Materials Database
- Compare materials properties
- Integration with leading CAD and CAE products
- 2,600+ Materials Datasets pre-loaded
This upfront design tool calculates stresses and strains, then cumulates damage from repetitive loading to determine a product’s predicted life using finite element analysis.
- Fully Integrated Inside the Ansys Workbench Environment
- Complete Materials Library to Aid in Building Models Quickly
- Optimization Capabilities to Predict Product’s Expected Usage – Long Before the First Prototype is Built
Apollo Tyres used ANSYS Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis to simulate water flow through car tires. This predicted lift force and hydroplaning speed, improving the wet grip of designs.
