Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer and Advanced Engineering Analysis
Vertical Aerospace Making Air Travel Personal, On Demand and Carbon Free
Development of electric Urban VTOL aircraft over 3 prototypes
The Secret History of Fighter Aircraft Engine Development in WW2
Authoritative account of wartime engine development.
Injection pressure as a means to guide air utlization in diesel engine combustion
Ernst Winklhofer, Manager of Combustion Measurement Technologies at AVL LIST, delivers a talk on Injection pressure as a Means to guide air utilisation in heavy duty engine combustion.
Donald Julius Groen Prize Lecture. The WheelRail Interface and Complex Tribology of an Open System
The wheel/rail interface is one of the most complex interfaces tribologists have to deal with. It is an open system with constantly varying contact forces and slip. This means that it presents a wide range of behaviours in terms of friction and wear which at their extremes can compromise train safety. It also means that replicating the behaviour in the laboratory and predicting its behaviour is very difficult. This talk covers work carried out and ongoing to create small-scale experiments to understand fundamental mechanisms; development of modelling tools and applied solutions to for a range of wheel/rail interface issues. The work is focused on low adhesion; wear and rolling contact fatigue and rail grinding case studies.
Advantages of optimisation driven design for automotive applications
With the ever increasing demand for efficient material usage and reduced product costs, optimisation techniques are becoming ever more commonplace in the digital engineering environment. Further to this demand, the automotive industry is facing one of its most exciting but challenging times with the accelerated transition to EV platforms. At leading engineering companies across many industries, including automotive, design optimisation is recognized as a key step in the development process. Optimisation-led design delivers significant competitive and cost-saving advantages as well as providing a powerful platform to increase engineering understanding. In this webinar you will learn about the optimisation techniques currently employed in the automotive industry, through several case study applications. The advantages of an optimisation-driven design philosophy will be discussed, demonstrating how it can provide insights and guidance to engineers. Attendees will gain insights from real client successes, such as: • How optimisation methods are used to identify and resolve structural weaknesses in Body Design • How design exploration methods can provide invaluable increases in understanding complex engineering systems, enabling improved designs • How a major hypercar manufacturer reduced their use of carbon material in the chassis by 23% Through the topics discussed during the webinar, attendees will learn how to: • Avoid costly and unpredictable design iteration loops that cause project delays • Rapidly evaluate and compare the feasibility of multiple design concepts • Develop designs to meet conflicting design requirements Attend the webinar to gain an insight into the advantages of optimisation-driven design and how you can integrate it into your engineering processes. Martin Gambling Martin received his degree in automotive engineering from Loughborough University in 1997, specialising in non-linear impact simulation of Formula 1 structures for his thesis. He has worked entirely in the field of computer aided engineering, developing specialisms in non-linear analysis and the application and development of design optimisation methods. Having begun his career at the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA), Martin has worked in the automotive industry for 25 years, developing and applying optimisation methods throughout this time. In 2003, Martin founded GRM Consulting; a CAE based consultancy developing and providing design optimisation software and services to the engineering community. In his role at GRM, a key motivator for him has been to see the continued adoption of optimisation methods to drive design.
Numerical investigation of cavitating injector flow
Bejoy Mandumpala Devassy, Development Engineer at AVL LIST, delivers a talk on the numerical investigation of cavitating injector flow accounting for 3D needle movement and liquid compressibility effects.
Coupled thermal and aerodynamic design
Simon Huber from the Institute of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics and Technical University Munich, explains the coupled thermal and aerodynamic design process within car production.
Flow separation patterns and surface pressure
Sabine Bonitz, from Chalmers University of Technology, presents an investigation of 3D flow separation patterns and surface pressure gradients on a notchback vehicle.
Simulation of cavitation inside diesel injectors
Foivos Koukouvinis, Post-Doctorial Researcher at City University of London, delivers a paper on simulation of cavitation inside diesel injectors, including erosion modelling.
Datacenter Cooling Focus on HPC
The UK is ranked third in terms of global data centre installations by energy use and UK data centre energy requirements are roughly equivalent to the total output of two nuclear power plants. As such, the industry is also a major producer of greenhouse gases and energy costs are a significant issue for data centres. The possibilities of using natural ventilation cooling to maintain required process conditions for current electronics mean a revolution in thinking about cooling, analogous to the Passivhaus revolution in building construction. In their search for free cooling, some large data centres are moving to cold climates; for example Facebook is planning a new centre in northern Sweden, highlighting how much of an issue this has become. Will this take another industry away from the UK or can we find alternative cooling systems that compete? At this event, key industry figures from ASHRAE, Hitachi and EcoCooling introduce and evaluate current changes in cooling strategy and implementation. A major focus of the event will be analysing the development and optimisation of natural ventilation, and the technology available, over the past decade. Keynote Speaker: Ian Bitterlin, CTO, Emerson Network Power Systems EMEA