Zafer Tastan – Ford - Werke GmbH

at MpCCI UF 2008

The full underhood thermal management of passenger cars is gaining more and more importance due to the increased engine power and restricted underhood space due to new added components during the last years. Additionally, shortened development cycle time is putting some limitation on climate tunnel and territory testing. Numerical methods, especially coupled thermal simulations, can help to overcome this problem by saving significant amount of time and coast.

The FLUENT/Radtherm coupling process through the MpCCI interface has been tested on full thermal underhood models which were created by using Tgrid and Harpoon meshes. The main task was setting up the process under work station cluster/super computing environment and comparison of different mesh configuration results according the calculated temperatures together with their calculation time.