Cooling Systems and VTM
Comprehensive Solution for Engine and Vehicle Thermal Management
GT-SUITE has a very strong capability for design and optimization of engine thermal management. It has been specifically designed for use by engine and vehicle manufacturers and heat management component suppliers.
Thermal management is a broad area whose tasks are distributed over a number of departments. To deal with these individual tasks, engineers use a wide range of analytical tools to design and optimize heat management systems (using separate tools for engine, vehicle, underhood). To study vehicle thermal management as a system requires that these tools interact and work together. This is not a small task, and in fact, the requirement for so many tools to interact is a roadblock to progress. For one, these tools vary from department to department, and this inhibits sharing of relevant data across the various disciplines involved in heat management.
To overcome this problem GT-SUITE combines all of the relevant capabilities needed to carry out an analysis of engine/vehicle thermal management. The flow modeling is based on 1-D fluid dynamics, representing the flow and heat transfer in the piping and in the other components of a cooling system. Many parallel fluid circuits can be modeled simultaneously, each containing a different fluid (coolant, oil, transmission fluid, air, combustion products, A/C fluids, etc.). These circuits interact through heat exchangers, transferring heat from one circuit to another, which allows the calculation of the overall heat balance in the system. GT-SUITE uses advanced solution methodology based compressible 1-D CFD flow solution that solves for mass, momentum, energy and species (unlike other hydraulics simulation tools which use approximations such as electrical analogy). As a result, it obtains more accurate predictions, especially under transient or unsteady flow conditions.
GT-SUITE contains all of the specialized models required for engine/vehicle system analysis, including built-in engine+vehicle simulation for calculation of thermal loads under any driving cycle. It also includes a detailed analysis of the lubrication circuit. There is also a library of thermal components that allows structure temperature calculations by lumped masses or by a built-in FE thermal solver. All-in-all, it provides the flexibility needed to model various advanced concepts. It is thus well suited for integration of all heat management activities arising in engine and vehicle development. In addition, there is another large advantage: much lower cost of licensing and maintenance of interfaces when using a single tool.
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APPLICATIONS
Engine Performance
Test Pressure Analysis
Exhaust Aftertreatment
Acoustics
SiL, HiL, real-time
Vehicle, driveline
Hybrid Vehicles
Cooling/VTM
Underhood Modules
AC and Rankine
Lubrication and bearings
Fuel Injection
Hydraulics, pneumatics
Valvetrain, camshaft
Cranktrain, crankshaft
Chain, gear, belt drive