Altair's Vision for Conceptual Design in Automotive

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

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.

From detailed component analysis to full systems performance, Altair provides a range of scalable solvers and robust pre- and post-processing software for CFD.

To get a beautifully designed electronic product safely delivered to your customer, the work must start at the product design phase. Leveraging simulation-driven design, manufacturers are gaining greater insight and control over the development of innovative products, consistent manufacturing processes, and cost-effective, sustainable packaging.

Photorealistic rendering has become a cornerstone for architectural visualization. Altair’s developers have collaborated with NVIDIA to leverage NVIDIA OptiX™ denoising technology to maximize the speed-up without compromising quality for both exterior and interior rendering scenes. We'll walk through some of the most recent benchmarks of Altair Thea Render™, showing performance gain on NVIDIA RTX hardware.

Altair CFD’s smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) solver is ideal for studying high-deformation free surface flows.

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.).

The latest release of Altair Inspire Studio introduces a powerful set of capabilities to create detailed 2D drawings of complex 3D models and assemblies from multiple perspectives. Functionalities include one-click view creation, section and detail views, linear, angular, radial, and ordinate dimensions, as well as annotations. Once completed, drawings can be easily exported and printed.

The latest release of Altair Inspire Studio introduces a new, quick, and easy way to explore design variations. Create design iterations on the fly using a design table. Quickly modify and set thresholds for the various parameters of a model, without having to dig through construction history. The entire model, including the design variables, can be exported to Altair HyperStudy to explore and evaluate different design alternatives.

A welcome address to Altair's ATCx CFD virtual event hosted in 2020, presented by Andy Fine, VP CFD Solutions EMEA at Altair.

CFD for Oiling and Thermal Management of Drivetrain Components, presented by Dr. Miloš Stanić, Product Manager at Altair during the ATCx CFD 2020.

Full evaluation of a design concept requires the definition of many complex details. However, complex geometric details constrain design flexibility. Think of the value of a complex model defined in a way that both details and basic design elements can be changed in seconds. The new suite of parametric free-form surface and solid shape parameters in the 2020 release of Inspire Studio make it possible to explore and analyze broad ranges of a design space. The presentation was part of the ATCx CFD 2020, presented by Paul Stewart, VP, Automotive Aerodynamics Modeling and Visualization at Altair

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.

Altair HyperLife is an easy to learn fatigue analysis software developed in a solver-neutral framework. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for fatigue analysis, with direct interfaces to all major FEA result files. With an integrated material library, HyperLife enables the prediction of fatigue life under repetitive loads that occur in a variety of industrial applications. In this webinar, you learnt how Altair HyperLife can seamlessly be integrated in a development process from multibody dynamic load extraction over structural topology optimization and redesign to a detailed fatigue analysis. The results are used in Altair Inspire Studio to create high quality renderings for presentations.

Learn how Altair’s flexible and efficient CFD solvers pave the way for simulation-based design in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Full evaluation of a design concept requires the definition of many complex details. However, complex geometric details constrain design flexibility.

Altair Inspire has rapidly advanced from a topology optimization tool for designers to a design environment spanning industrial design, structural simulation and optimization, motion analysis and manufacturing simulation.

Altair Inspire Studio is the new solution for designers to create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. In its latest release, Inspire Studio include advanced morphing of any geometry type.

Altair’s industrial design tools allow designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate, and visualize their vision faster than ever before.

Harnessing the computational capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) is one of the cornerstones of Altair's mission to empower its customers. First and foremost, utilizing GPUs to accelerate numerical simulation delivers significant increases in speed and therefore, throughput. That means more opportunities to explore and fine-tune designs, faster decision-making based on more accurate results, and consequently the prospect of considerable reductions in time to market. In addition, creativity is enhanced, with more vivid, realistic and accurate rendering and visualization put within easier reach.

In this Inspire Studio How-to Series we'll be designing a measuring cup. Each video shows a different step in the design process.

In this episode of the Inspire Studio How-to Series, we'll be designing a measuring cup, starting from creating the proper bounding box and importing an image plane for reference.

In this episode of the Inspire Studio How-to Series, we keep designing a measuring cup, making a few quick edits and learning how to use tools like sweep, patch, trim, and more. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.

In this third episode of designing a measuring cup, we focus on shelling the main body, use lattice to quickly morph the entire shape, and create a handle in very few clicks. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.

In the fourth episode of designing a measuring cup, we complete the shape adding rounds, seam lines, and getting ready to render the final product. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.

In the fifth and last episode of designing a measuring cup series, we finalize the design and create some photorealist renderings of the product, selecting and customizing materials from the library and editing the environment. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.

A short clip showing how easy is to create smooth and continuous NURBS sweep and loft surfaces in Inspire Studio. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.

Dr. Stuart Bates, Concept Technical Specialist at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019. Rapid Exploration of Packaging Alternatives e.g. Battery System Layout, Battery Frame / BIW Integration. Developing Balance Design (Weight vs Attribute Performance), Target Setting using Simulation.

Altair Inspire Studio is the new solution for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. With unrivaled flexibility and precision, its unique construction history feature along with multiple modeling techniques empowers users throughout the creative process.

A short workflow video illustrating the journey of a design idea, from the initial sketches to additive manufacturing, utilizing Altair Inspire Studio and Print3D. The final metal 3D-printing of the pen has been done in collaboration with SLM Solutions.

This presentation focuses on presenting a synergy of different simulation methods and tools towards the accurate prediction of power losses, oil distribution and thermal effects focusing on an automotive and aerospace gearbox example. A number of different approaches are described, including CFD, gear design, bearing design and selection and oil selection, with the aim of maximizing efficiency and ensuring adequate lubrication of critical components and cooling of the powertrain components (e-motor and the associated gearbox)

In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about Inspire Studio Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows within Inspire Studio. You will also have the opportunity to watch demonstrations and perform hands on exercises throughout the modules.

This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how freehand sketches can be easily imported in the software and used as the starting point to design a chair.

This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how 2D technical sketches can be leveraged to design parametric parts in a chair design.

This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how PolyNURBS technology can be used to easily and rapidly generate the initial body style of a vehicle.

This Inspire Studio Workflow video illustrates an example of how construction history can be leveraged to quickly apply modifications to an existent model, like changing the number of spokes in a bike wheel without rebuilding the model.

Altair Inspire Studio is a new software solution that enables designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate and visualize design ideas faster than ever before.

Overview of Tool Ribbon, Tool-belt, World Browser, Preferences, and Help.

Overview of Pan, Rotate, Zoom, Navi-Cube, Camera Setup/Editing, Modeling windows, and View Modes.

Overview of Creation Mode, Edit Mode, Guide Bar, and Exit tool.