Tongji University’s ZEAL EcoPower team uses HyperWorks to win Honda Challenge.
ZEAL EcoPower Racer gets over 4250 mpg!
The ZEAL EcoPower Racing Team from Tongji University has credited Altair HyperWorks as their secret weapon in the 2014 Honda China Energy-Saving Sports Tournament. Using the CAE suite, the team was able to achieve an astonishing fuel mileage of 1807.653 km/L (4251.863 mpg).
ZEAL turned to Altair for their automotive consulting experience and their wide range of CAE software. The addition of multiphysics and built-in pre- and post-processing helped the team decide that the simulation technology was the right choice to support their optimized design.
These optimized design goals included weight reduction, composite material, crash and safety, fuel efficiency, fuel flow, and aerodynamics. These goals would naturally require the CFD, FEA and multiphysics capabilities of HyperWorks and OptiStruct.
ZEAL simulation of the EcoPower Racer in Altair. To meet these goals, the team performed modal analysis, topology optimizations, composite material optimizations, static analysis and more. Performing all the simulations early in design allowed for an optimal design with optimal performance.
Wang Yangming, a Zeal engineer, said, “Winning this championship would not have been possible without Altair’s support. HyperWorks plays a crucial role in performance vehicle engineering … Also, Altair’s technical support engineers have been very helpful, creating detailed technical training courses based upon our requirements as well as providing consulting expertise to improve vehicle design and performance. We hope to continue our strong collaboration with Altair in the future.”
Zeal is a student innovation training program at Tongji University that was started in 2000. Since then it has grown into one of the largest groups in the University’s history. Its goal is to foster student innovation, teamwork, application of engineering knowledge and opportunities. They have participated and ranked significantly in the Honda China Energy-Savings Sports Tournament every year since it began in 2007.
Source Altair.
