Journal Article
Analysis of the Water Management on a Full Virtual Car Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
2020-03-23
Abstract The appearance of an automobile is anything but unimportant for the owner. This applies to the acquisition as well as the keeping. In this context, the avoidance of corrosion is a fundamental part of the user’s satisfaction of a company. The body design can be modified to optimize drainage and reduce the risk of corrosion, improving the owner’s satisfaction with the purchase of the automobile. During the proof of concept of water management, as part of the process of development, physical prototypes are state of the art. At this point in the development process, every necessary change is expensive and time consuming. Virtual methods are able to support the development in earlier steps and thus reduce costs. The conventional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods could not handle the simulation of a full car in the rain or water passage properly due to much higher computation efforts and deviations from the experiments.