Automated Meshing for Aero-Thermal Analysis of Complex Automotive Geometries

2011-01-0523

04/12/2011

Event
SAE 2011 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
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.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-0523
Pages
7
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.
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Published
Apr 12, 2011
Product Code
2011-01-0523
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English