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"At Deutz AG, we are successfully using FLUENT to understand and design
a wide range of diesel and gas engine components. Additionally, we have
tested the moving/deforming mesh feature and, in fact, see its high
potential for facilitating swirl layout and bowl design. FLUENT is our
code of choice because it includes the comprehensive features we need,
is intuitive, robust, and well documented."
- - Dr.-Ing. Andreas Boemer
- Engineer, Deutz AG
"Tesma Engine Technologies has found Fluent CFD software to provide the
best overall predictive package results for our centrifugal pump and
cooling systems analysis applications. We have consistently found the
prediction performance, versus actual test results, to be in the realm
of +-5%.
Tesma Engine Technologies now applies Fluent CFD analysis in all
design solutions and has consistently found the results to be
directionally correct in all trials undertaken. This has resulted in
our Corporation saving substantial costs associated with purchasing
prototypes and conducting expensive time consuming test cycles."
- -Peter Vert
- Director of Group Engineering and Product Development
- Tesma Engine Technologies
"The FLUENT code is characterized above all by its user-friendliness
and by its intuitive environment. Thanks to those features and its robust,
accurate, and efficient solver, FLUENT has been readily adopted into our
existing design process at the engine department. We now routinely use
the code for simulation of engine related flows such as intake and exhaust
systems."
- -Per Jonsson
- Technical Manager
- Scania CV AB, Sweden
"Reliable statements about the strain of each individual component
are essential for developing high-performance car exhaust systems. We
at Boysen have been using FLUENT for many years for the numerical simulation
of transient and highly turbulent flows. The calculations are the basis
for evaluating and optimizing components with respect to strength and
emissions. We consider Fluent to be a competent partner in software support
and also a reliable service provider when dealing with complex problems."
- -Florian Lüderitz
- Friedrich Boysen GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
"In my business, you can never be fast enough, and the results
can never be too accurate. The Fluent suite of products (GAMBIT, TGrid,
and FLUENT) has allowed us to strike an impressive balance of speed
and quality. This balance, in turn, allowed us to use full blown 3D
CFD in designs of experiments of significant size, and complete the
DOEs in time to drive engine design. If the balance were tipped in either
direction, the DOE would become either late or misleading, both of which
render it useless. The robustness of the solver itself is a great bonus,
because we can submit-and-forget."
- -Edward C. Hernandez
- Supervisor, Flow and Thermal Methods
- Analytical Powertrain Department
- Ford Motor Company
"To win at anything you have to surround yourself with the best.
That is why we use FLUENT CFD software to visualize and analyze fluid
flows such as air flowing over the vehicle or water flowing through the
cylinder head. FLUENT is an integral part of keeping our race teams at
their best."
- -Joe Gibbs
- NFL Hall of Fame Football Coach and
Team Owner of Reigning Winston Cup Champion Bobby Labonte Car
"In experimentation with engine cooling systems we needed a discipline
that would validate fluid flow to the satisfaction of our customers -
the major automobile manufacturers. The ease of use, accuracy, and
global acceptance of FLUENT CFD software has gained us large contracts
with key automobile manufacturers and reinforced our reputation as
technology leaders in automotive engine systems. In addition to its
superior accuracy, ease of use, and consistency, FLUENT is also
absolutely amazing in its parallel processing ability. We assembled a
small Linux cluster and obtained a parallel processing license. FLUENT
performed flawlessly in our clustered environment the first time we
tried it. Setting up and running a job in parallel is seamless to the
end user, making FLUENT the ultimate return on investment in simulation
tools."
- -Ryan Huizenga
- CAD Systems Supervisor
- Litens Automotive Group
"FLUENT has played an essential role in Bosch's DC motor durability
program. By modeling our motors at various speeds and cooling flow rates,
changes in flow patterns were discovered. Without knowing to look for
them, they would be virtually impossible to discern experimentally.
The predicted temperatures were within 6 C of experiments, for the entire
test matrix.
Furthermore, GAMBIT's journaling capability allowed a parametric approach
to model building to be used. In this way, frame sizes, frame lengths,
number of cooling holes, etc., are variables and easily changed. Building
and meshing a model now takes hours instead of weeks."
- -Robert Hickey, PE
- Research Engineer, Robert Bosch Corporation
"Tesma has used FLUENT to help predict performance on every water
pump project. We also use CFD to optimize impeller and volute shape,
including, where necessary, to balance flow to both banks of V engines,
thus reducing testing validation time. Typically, flow modeling analysis
predicts to within less than 10% of the actual test result."
- -Slobodan Rancic
- CFD Specialist
- Tesma Engine Technologies - A Division of Tesma International Inc.
"We routinely use FLUENT for pressure drop predictions on both intake
and exhaust systems for off road vehicles. Results have generally
correlated to within 4%. This, along with flow field visualization, has
allowed us to have a high level of confidence in our designs before
prototyping and cut significant time (10%) from the design process."
- - Richard Kunde
- Project Engineer, Donaldson Company Inc.
"Speed is a concern of ours every step of the way. That includes
learning to use new software. I was extremely pleased with the ease and
speed that I was able to effectively use FLUENT software. I can now analyze
powertrain components such as manifold or intake ports from CAD to solution
in just one day. The accuracy and robustness of FLUENT, coupled with unlimited
technical support from their Ann Arbor-based automotive team, were critical
to the quick implementation of CFD, which is new to our industry."
- - Charles Jenckes
- Team Engineer, Gibbs Racing
"CFD fits into our concurrent engineering strategy right back
at the conceptual design stage and provides us with a powerful tool
to improve our cars. Very quickly we found we could look at ten wing
configurations rather than one."
- - Dr. Pat Symonds
- Technical Director, Benetton Formula I
"As the world's most used CFD method, it clearly has better funding and development than any other package on the market. With such an extensive user base, the program is probably the best tested on the market as well and practically guarantees robustness for even the most difficult flow regimes."
- - Peter Machin
- Senior CFD Engineer, Arrows GP International Ltd.
"FLUENT CFD analysis has helped Visteon engineers make substantial performance improvements in vehicle HVAC systems while reducing design lead time by an average of 75%. Using CFD, we can identify and solve nearly all problems before the first prototype is built." - - Tim Hall & George Anderson
- Technical Specialists, Visteon Automotive Systems
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