OpenFOAM
One of the challenges that the ground transportation industry has to face is to reduce the Coefficient of Drag and have an Optimal Exterior Design, while maintaining design D&A.
Today optimization is performed through running lots of CFD simulations for variety of design factors. It is time consuming and become prohibitively expensive
ESI allows the Automotive Industry to be more efficient by promoting 2 concepts:
- CFD OpenFOAM code: Free surface, Multiphase flow, Combustion, Magneto Hydrodynamics…It is highly scalable and can be run on many parallel CPUs and produce results very quickly
- Adjoint solver: Methodology for computing directly the gradients of the Navier-Stoke equation for CFD problems
