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Developing synergy between styling design and aerodynamic efficiency has been an ongoing challenge in the automotive industry for many years. Designers and aerodynamicists have to meet strict deadlines and have limited resources to iterate and evolve the design and performance of the vehicle exterior during early concept development. The number of possible styling variants and configurations can often reach into the hundreds. Physical wind tunnel measurements are simply not practical from a time or cost perspective to evaluate these designs. Therefore, increased performance and accuracy of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations have become the main objective of every vehicle OEMs. Today, the GPU hardware, particularly the memory and performance, has reached a point where there is an increased interest in their usage for aerodynamics simulations. GPUs offer potential simulation performance improvements due to lower power consumption and hardware costs.