Webinar: Your Global Partner to Boost Electrification Projects
The path towards electrification requires significant investment, changes to technologies, development processes and even organizational structures. This introductory webinar will reveal Altair's simulation- and data-driven design tools to accelerate all electrification projects by helping to make good decisions early.
The session will cover solutions for the design of the various parts of electric drive systems, from the battery to the wheels; while considering system integration and the architecture changes that must be made at vehicle level to build innovative energy efficient electric mobility solutions.
Webinars
Shape Optimization to reduce drag formation and improve thermal cooling for powertrain and battery using Altair AcuSolve
In modern Electric Vehicles, body panel design plays a huge role in thermal management for the Li-Ion battery and powertrain performance. Early-stage aerodynamic and thermal prediction is necessary for surface optimization of vehicle exterior. Well defined and controlled flow phenomena need to be achieved around the vehicle during A- surface development phase, to improve the ride performance and handling of the vehicle on the road In this phase, Altair CFD Thermal solver AcuSolve drastically reduced the time consumed for analysis
India ATC 2021
Ultraviolette F77 – EV Bike Aerodynamics and Efficiency improvements with Altair CFD Solutions
The aerodynamics design of high-performance bikes plays a significant role in reducing the overall drag, increase in speed, and improving the range efficiency. To improve and sustain the performance of the EV, it is necessary to explore various factors such as aerodynamically streamlining the vehicle design, optimise frontal area, and cooling electronic components as well.
India ATC 2021
The Cost of Cooling: Unlocking Vehicle Efficiency with Cabin CFD
Air conditioning can reduce fuel economy by more than 20%, making it the vehicle's most energy-consuming system. To solve this difficult challenge, vehicle designers are turning to Altair's powerful and intuitive CFD solutions to understand the energy consumption and energy losses of the system for increased range and improved passenger thermal environment.
Presenter: Bill Calver
Partner: TIATherm by Thermal Analytics
Webinars
Resonate Well - Harvesting Bladeless Wind Energy, by Vortex Bladeless
Sustainable designs last longer. David Yáñez from Vortex Bladeless, a Spanish start-up, shares his vision of the technology, the strategies used for the integration of the different physical phenomena involved in the simulation-driven design, and the development of their resonating structures having minimal parts susceptible to wear by friction. The simulation results from CFD, with fluid-structure interaction, and electromagnetic field simulation are compared with experimental wind tunnel results and from in-service environments.
Future.Industry 2021
Settling the Dust: How to Reduce Using Simulation Design, by Bulk Materials Engineering Australia (BMEA)
Dust is a serious problem for industries that handle and process bulk materials, causing deteriorating ambient air quality, human health concerns, while increases housekeeping labor costs to meet safe levels for health and fire risks. Learn from Dr. Andrew Grima about the technologies employed to develop a successful solution to minimize dust by using calibrated discrete element modeling (DEM) and new dust extraction technology.
Future.Industry 2021
CFD Simulation - Not Just for Experts
An intuitive and robust CFD workflow is available in Altair® SimLab® - a process-oriented, feature-based finite element analysis software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate the engineering behavior of complex assemblies. For fluid and thermal analyses, SimLab can make the model setup process even faster, repeatable, thereby minimizing tedious manual steps that can be automated. A live demo will be performed using real-world models to show the simple and smooth analysis process in Altair SimLab that goes from CAD to results in minutes.
Future.Industry 2021
Topology Optimization Considering Fluid Flows
For the past three decades, Altair’s optimization solutions have driven the innovative, lightweight, and structurally efficient designs of many products you see and use every day. The intense focus on additive manufacturing in recent years have given a boost to topology optimization and generative design, providing more freedom to explore alternatives. Today, we keep on innovating the technology, looking at including multiple physics, like thermal, electromagnetics, and fluid flow to drive design. Altair AcuSolve – coupled with Altair Optistruct – enables engineers to find the optimum shape by simply defining inlets, outlets, and the allowable space in which the solver can work. AcuSolve’s gradient-based topology optimization method will quickly and efficiently find the path of least resistance to deliver fluid flows with minimal effort.
Future.Industry 2021
Altair CFD – A Comprehensive Set of Tools for Fluid Mechanics Problems
The applications of computational fluid dynamics are broad, spanning multiple industries and requiring varying degrees of detail and analysis. For an analyst performing advanced computational fluid dynamics modelling or a design engineer quickly needing to understand fluid or thermal effects on a design proposal, Altair offers a complete set of tools to support each project.
Technical Document
Fly High with Optimization - Optimizing Camcopter® S-100 Design at Schiebel
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are a rapidly evolving technology and used for a variety of civil and military purposes. To ensure airworthiness, UAS manufacturers rely on advanced simulation and manufacturing techniques to create efficient designs. Aerial systems active throughout Europe and operating with diverse payloads for different missions require a reliable vehicle architecture and fuel supply. To ensure perfectly tuned architecture and a lightweight design while increasing stiffness and strength, Schiebel used Altair solutions in combination with 3D printing. The engineers performed various simulations to optimize the design of AM engine parts. Using Altair’s topology optimization structural design tool, Schiebel reduced the weight significantly while maintaining high stiffness. Subsequently, the system was evaluated by laminar and turbulent flow simulation as well as conjugate heat transfer simulation using Altair CFD™. Contacts, NLFE and complex dynamic systems were modeled with Altair® MotionView® and Altair® MotionSolve®. Schiebel also took advantage of APA solutions.
Customer Stories
Complex Radome Electromagnetics Simulation in Minutes
Radomes are used across multiple industries, including aerospace, defense, electronics, and
telecommunications. When properly designed, the radome can actually enhance the performance
of an antenna system. The proper selection of a radome for a given antenna can help improve the
overall electromagnetic system performance by eliminating wind loading, allowing for all-weather
operation, and providing shelter for installation and maintenance. Altair’s radome simulation
solution helps to streamline the design of these complex components, ensuring performance while
significantly reducing development time.
Technical Document
Discover Altair CFD: Multiple CFD solutions under a single license
This webinar introduces Altair CFD and reveals how it can help organizations reduce software expense and deliver accurate results faster by providing all the major CFD technologies under a single license.
Whether you’re looking to optimize gearbox oiling, analyze tank sloshing, perform aerodynamics studies, or reduce cooling fan noise, Altair CFD provides the technology you need, as you need it – utilizing state-of-the art GPU calculations to reduce modeling turnaround times.
This webinar covers:
• The different CFD methods available with Altair CFD
• The range of fluids problems that can be solved with Altair CFD, including some unique applications and customer examples
• How Altair’s unique licensing system enables companies to reduce software expenditure
• How Altair’s flexible approach to Cloud and HPC helps deliver results faster
• What is next for Altair CFD?
Speakers
James R. Scapa, Founder and CEO
Mahender Reddy, SVP CFD & Manufacturing
Uwe Schramm, CTO
Duration: 35 minutes
Webinars
The Keys to Scalable, Cost-Effective CFD Investment
Fluid mechanics simulation is a critical tool for late-stage failure risk mitigation, as well as a driver of design insights throughout the product development process. Used across all levels of product design and validation, from design engineers seeking to understand fluid and thermal effects on a design proposal to analysts performing advanced aerodynamic modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) serves a broad array of applications and a range of users with varied levels of expertise. The sometimes complex and computationally intensive nature of CFD necessitates careful consideration of the software and hardware investments required to produce accurate solutions and scale them at the speed of a company’s development process.
Technical Document
Reducing Risk of Failure of noise compliance with direct fan noise simulation
This presentation shows how advanced simulation technology can provide a cost effective way to minimizing the risk breaching noise regulations. Often the issue is only found out in a prototype testing scenario, bench test results can give misleading information as acoustic character of a rotating component will change in an installed condition. Altair CFD brings a solution to the market for installed fan acoustics by directly calculating the convective field, this virtual method can significantly reduce risk of failure leading to development cost savings and mitigation of timeline overshoot.
Presented at the ATCx Heavy Equipment in May 2021.
Speaker: Andy Fine, Vice President CFD Solutions, EMEA, Altair
Duration: 15 minutes
Conference Presentations
Battery Part 1: Developing Predictive Electro Thermal Cell Models for Pack Level Deployment
Martin Kemp, Regional Manager at Altair, Dr. Denis Cumming, a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sheffield, John Milios, CEO at Sendyne, Dr. Gregory Offer, Reader at Imperial College London and finally Professor Jun Xu, Director of Vehicle Energy & Safety Laboratory at The University of North Carolina, present - Developing Predictive Electro Thermal Cell Models for Pack Level Deployment.
This presentation will focus on the simulation of the battery cell to represent its complex thermal and mechanical behaviour. The thermal behaviour requires the simulation of the electric behaviour within the cell which leads to the generation of heat. Managing the thermal behaviour is fundamental to the long term health of the battery. The talk provides an overview of the technologies used to simulate battery behaviour, commencing with the understanding of the battery structure including the simulation of electrode manufacture. Both electrochemical and equivalent circuit models will be discussed with the advantages and disadvantages of both methods presented. Finally, machine learning technology is used to create an intelligent cell model which retains accuracy whilst delivering computational efficiency which can be used in Part 2.
Conference Presentations
Record on Vehicle Drag Coefficient - GAC Realizes Low Drag Design with Altair and NVIDIA
GAC engineers used Altair CFD’s Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) solver to perform hundreds of transient simulations on design changes with high-accuracy using NVIDIA’s Tesla-V100 GPUs to increase computing efficiency. Results include achieving one of the highest aerodynamic efficient vehicle designs in its class on the GAC GS4 coupe, and on the concept GAC ENO.146, while at the same time realizing model preparation time savings of 60% and simulation cost savings of 70%.
Customer Stories
Altair for Fluids and Thermal Applications
From detailed component analysis to full systems performance, Altair provides a range of scalable solvers and robust pre- and post-processing software for CFD.
Brochures
How to Consider Water Wading and Water Management in Your Design
Altair CFD’s smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver is ideal for studying high-deformation free surface flows.
Use Cases
Optimize Gearbox Oiling to Improving Efficiency and Reliability
Altair CFD’s smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver realistically simulates oil flow within various drivetrain components in automotive, aerospace and heavy industries (e.g. manual or automatic gearboxes, differentials, auxiliary aerospace gearboxes etc.).
Use Cases
ATCx CFD 2020 - Welcome & Introduction to Altair and the CFD Solutions
A welcome address to Altair's ATCx CFD virtual event hosted in 2020, presented by Andy Fine, VP CFD Solutions EMEA at Altair.
Conference Presentations
CFD for Oiling and Thermal Management of Drivetrain Components
CFD for Oiling and Thermal Management of Drivetrain Components, presented by Dr. Miloš Stanić, Product Manager at Altair during the ATCx CFD 2020.
Conference Presentations
ATCx CFD 2020 - Fast and Accurate Solutions to Optimize CFD Performance
Presented at the ATCx CFD 2020, Fast and Accurate Solutions to Optimize CFD Performance by Stephen Cosgrove, VP CFD Solutions Americas at Altair.
Conference Presentations
ATCx CFD 2020 - Empowering Aerodynamic Design Exploration – Volkswagen Group Research Case Study
Presented as part of the ATCx CFD 2020. Empowering Aerodynamic Design Exploration – Volkswagen Group Research Case Study by Dr. Bastian Schnepf, Technical Manager CFD
Solutions at Altair.
Conference Presentations
ATCx CFD 2020 - A New & Revolutionary Way to Collect Energy from Wind
Presented at the ATCx CFD 2020. A New & Revolutionary Way to Collect Energy from Wind by David Yáñez, Co-Founder of Vortex Bladeless.
Conference Presentations
ATCx CFD 2020 - Workshop 3: General Purpose CFD
Workshop 3: General Purpose CFD presented live at the ATCx CFD 2020 virtual event.
Conference Presentations
ATCx CFD 2020 - Q&A with Torbjörn Larsson, Former Head of CFD for Ferrari F1
Recorded at the ATCx CFD 2020 virtual event, this is a Q&A with Torbjörn Larsson, Former Head of CFD for Ferrari F1.
With previous roles at BMW F1, General Motors and Saab Military Aircraft, Torbjörn has 30 years of industrial experience in fluid mechanics and CFD. Listen to the questions our audience posed to Torbjörn in this 30 minute session.
Conference Presentations
CFD Modeling and Visualization with Altair CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has long been regarded as an "expert" tool that requires specialized skill sets to apply properly.
Conference Presentations
Altair for Multiphysics Applications
Altair provides an industry-leading portfolio of multiphysics-enabled software to simulate a wide range of interacting physical models including fluid-structure interaction (FSI), flexible bodies, aeroacoustics, and thermomechanical simulation.
Brochures
Altair CFD Overview Video
Altair CFD offers a comprehensive set of tools to solve fluid mechanics problems. Whether you are looking to perform thermal analysis of buildings, predict aerodynamics of vehicles, optimize gearbox oiling, reduce cooling fan noise, or develop innovative medical devices, Altair CFD can help. This short video exemplifies several of Altair CFD's most typical applications on a utility tractor.
Product Overview Videos