Large Scale Engine Bay Package Optimization

Project Description

The continuous reduction of the fuel consumption of our vehicles is one of the key goals of the Ford Motor Company product development team. Delivering a more energy efficient vehicle while maintaining design leadership, high package efficiency and fulfilling future safety standards is very complex task requiring a new engineering approach.

A leadership class HPC resource such as Jaguar provides a unique opportunity to run, for the first time, a complete engine bay package optimization study using a 3D CFD method coupled to an optimization software package and with that to develop a methodology to further improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles in the future.

Additionally, this research project is intended as a proof of concept and its successful completion will serve as the basis for an acquisition of an in-house large scale resource for similar CAE projects in the future.