CFD & NUMERICAL SIMULATION
CFD & Numerical Simulation
What is CFD for automotive and aircraft ?
Why Choose CFD for Automotive and Aerospace?
- Optimize external aerodynamics to reduce drag and improve fuel efficiency.
- Enhance thermal management for batteries, engines, and HVAC systems.
- Minimize aeroacoustic noise for a quieter, more comfortable ride.
- Common searches: “CFD for automotive aerodynamics”, “CFD thermal management vehicle”, “CFD for battery cooling”.
- Improve aerodynamic efficiency for better lift, reduced drag, and fuel savings.
- Ensure flight safety through precise structural and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis.
- Reduce aeroacoustic noise from aircraft components for compliance and passenger comfort.
- Common searches: “CFD for aircraft design”, “CFD aeroacoustics airplane”, “fluid-structure interaction aerospace”.
Our CFD Services and Expertise
Applications
AUTOMOTIVE
- External Aerodynamics: Optimize vehicle body shapes to reduce drag, improve stability, and enhance fuel efficiency using 0D/1D and 2D/3D automatic unstructured mesh generation.
- Turbocharger Simulations: Perform steady and unsteady flow analysis for turbochargers, improving efficiency and power output.
- 3D Automatic Optimization: Transform water pump designs with cutting-edge CFD simulations for peak performance.
- Technologies: Drag reduction, cooling airflow, vehicle body design, aero-performance.
AERONAUTICS
- Aerodynamic Efficiency: Model airflow to optimize lift, reduce drag, and improve fuel efficiency for aircraft and components.
- Flight Dynamics: Simulate complex flight conditions to ensure safety and performance under real-world scenarios.
- Structural Integrity: Analyze fluid-structure interactions (FSI) to ensure durability of wings, fuselages, and other components.
- Technologies: Lift optimization, drag reduction, flight dynamics, FSI simulation.
THERMAL MANAGEMENT (Heat & Cooling)
- Applications: Battery cooling, ECU thermal flow, HVAC optimization, braking system cooling.
- Benefits: Prevent overheating, extend component lifespan, and improve energy efficienc
AERODYNAMISM & EXTERNAL FLOW
Optimizing airflow to reduce drag, improve lift, and enhance vehicle or aircraft performance.
Technologies: Design of vehicle bodies, drag reduction, cooling airflow, aero-performance
AEROACOUSTICS
- Applications: Wind noise reduction, fan noise control, active noise cancellation.
- Benefits: Improve passenger experience and meet stringent noise regulations.
FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION (FSI)
- Applications: Wing deformation under airflow, vehicle body stress under aerodynamic loads.
- Benefits: Ensure structural integrity and performance under dynamic conditions.
MULTIPHASE FLOW
- Applications: Fuel systems, surface water management, battery cooling.
- Benefits: Optimize engine efficiency and component durability.
ProLB - Our Cutting-Edge CFD Tool
ProLB is a state-of-the-art CFD solution powered by the Lattice-Boltzmann method, delivering high-fidelity, transient simulations of complex flows in record time. Designed for automotive and aerospace applications, ProLB enables early-stage design decisions, streamlining development and reducing costs.
Thanks to its precise aerodynamic and aeroacoustic modeling, ProLB allows engineers to make design decisions in the early stages of a project that optimize and shorten the product development process.
Key Features of ProLB:
- High-Fidelity Large Eddy Simulations (LES): Accurate modeling of turbulent flows for precise results.
- HPC Cluster Processing: Lightning-fast simulations with scalable performance.
- LBphysics: Open, customizable numerical models for tailored solutions.
- Flexible Licensing: Cost-effective, processor-unrestricted licensing.
- LBpre Pre-Processing: Intuitive, scriptable interface with rapid automatic volume mesh generation.
- Free Post-Processing Tool: Seamless analysis of simulation results
Why consider CS Canada & US?
With over 20 years of expertise in ADAS Level 2+ projects and airborne fail-operational mode certification, CS Group Canada’s engineers deliver cutting-edge CFD and simulation solutions. We empower more than 50 OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and startups across North America (US and Canada) to accelerate the development, certification, and commercialization of autonomous and electric vehicle technologies.
As trusted Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Managers, we support our partners in overcoming certification challenges, ensuring safe, secure, and connected mobility solutions for today’s automotive and aerospace markets.
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