Advanced CFD for Automotive Design.
Open-source CFD software tailored for automotive design, external vehicle aerodynamics analysis and thermal management. Benefit from embedded best practices and unlimited scalability.
Benefits
Why is ELEMENTS the right open-source CFD solution for you?
Configurable templates
ELEMENTS offers user configurable templates for modeling external vehicle aerodynamics and under-hood thermal management.
Validated best practices
ELEMENTS provides predefined aerodynamics templates validated against hundreds of wind tunnel measurements at both model and full scale.
Unlimited scalability
ELEMENTS allows you to run unlimited simultaneous CFD simulations across all available computing cores, without incurring any additional HPC licensing fees.
Parallel meshing
ELEMENTS' automatic hex-dominant parallel meshing, with geometry healing and wrapping, reduces CAD clean-up effort and turn-around time.
Automatic reporting
ELEMENTS' reporting capabilities include both run-time and post-processing routines for advanced visualization and automatic report generation.
VIRTUAL WIND TUNNEL
Fully validated CFD methods for virtual wind-tunnel simulations.
Wind-tunnel validation
The ELEMENTS External Aerodynamics Wizard provides a Virtual Wind Tunnel for vehicle aerodynamics simulations with predefined, validated templates.
Fully configurable best practices
Users can develop, save, and publish their own best practices for consistent results across various wind tunnel conditions.
general vehicle design applications
Comprehensive CFD solution for general automotive design applications.
ELEMENTS combines two simulation environments in one package: a dedicated virtual wind tunnel wizard for modelling external vehicle aerodynamics, and a general purpose CFD interface for solving other vehicle design applications, such as:
- UHTM, general thermal management
- HVAC and cabin comfort
- Aeroacoustics
- Battery cooling
- Brake cooling
key features
Unlimited simulations and parallel performance.
True high-fidelity CFD.
No compromise.
APPLICATIONS
Are you looking for an open-source CFD solution for automotive applications? We are the right choice.
ELEMENTS combines two simulation environments: a dedicated virtual wind tunnel for modeling external vehicle aerodynamics and a general-purpose CFD interface for other vehicle design applications. This combination, along with its open-source nature and unlimited scalability, makes ELEMENTS the most comprehensive CFD solution for the automotive industry.
Just like you, we are passionate about CFD
Contact ENGYS team to explain your automotive CFD challenges and learn if our open-source CFD solutions can help you.
ELEMENTS for External Aerodynamics
Our fully validated methods and a dedicated and customizable wizard for virtual wind tunnel CFD simulations make ELEMENTS the ideal solution for external aerodynamics simulations.
ELEMENTS for Thermal Management
From meshing complex geometries automatically to multi-region thermal analysis, ELEMENTS is the ideal CFD solution for thermal vehicle design.
ELEMENTS for Aeroacoustic
ELEMENTS offers full access to aeroacoustics DES/LES simulations without any extra HPC licensing costs.
ELEMENTS for Battery Cooling
The open-source CFD methods in ELEMENTS help engineers verify more designs at no extra cost to increase the lifespan and safety of battery packs.
ELEMENTS for Brake Cooling
Perform detailed brake cooling CFD analysis using advanced multi-region thermal models with complex motion mechanisms.
ELEMENTS for Fuel Tank Sloshing
Achieve accurate tank sloshing predictions with our advanced VOF multi-phase solver, including baffles and check valves.
ADD-ONS
Additional modules to expand ELEMENTS capabilities.
A continuous adjoint-based CFD tool for topology and shape optimization of complex engineering designs, including internal and external flow applications.
Block-coupled, implicit, CFD solver suite for single-phase, incompressible and compressible flow applications in the sub-sonic, transonic and supersonic regimes.
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