Reducing emissions and the carbon footprint of our society have become imperatives requiring industries to adapt. This webinar will present how Ricardo meets challenges through virtual product development enabling the optimisation of key attributes both at a component and system level.
Reducing emissions and the carbon footprint of our society have become imperatives requiring the automotive industry to adapt and develop technologies to strive for a cleaner sustainable transport system and for sustainable economic prosperity. Electrified HEV, PHEV and range extender powertrains present challenges in terms of thermal management due to the different load conditions that a hybrid ICE will experience compared with a conventional powertrain. In addition, the market is driving a significantly shortened development cycle emphasising the importance of using analytical methods to optimise systems instead of relying on costly physical development programmes.
A key requirement for meeting these challenges is to accurately predict the thermal loading and temperatures of an IC engine quickly under multiple full and part load conditions, both as a steady state and as a transient. Accurate prediction of temperatures is essential to meet the challenges of:
- Managing thermal warm up
- Minimising friction and oil consumption to meet ever-challenging emission targets
- Reducing noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH)
This webinar will present how Ricardo meets these challenges through virtual product development enabling the optimisation of these key attributes both at a component and system level.
About the Speakers:
Nick Tiney – Global Product Management Director, Ricardo Software. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Hertfordshire, Nick has extensive experience with applied computing and engineering specialising in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Nick joined Ricardo Software in 1998 as support engineer for 1D and 3D CFD products before becoming the Product Manager for Fluids and now, Global Director for Product Management.
David Bell – Head of Commercialisation, Ricardo Software. David graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath. In the same year he joined Ricardo Consulting Engineers. In 1992, he became a Chartered (CEng) member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
In 2005 David became development manager for the Structural Mechanics software suite at Ricardo, managing a team of software developers, before becoming Commercialisation Manager in 2019.
During his career at Ricardo, David has co-authored and presented technical papers at SAE and IMechE conferences, as well as Ricardo Software conferences.
Jan Hynous – Associate Product Manager, Ricardo Software. With a degree in Applied Mechanics from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Jan has extensive experience with thermo-structural finite element analyses (FEA). Before joining Ricardo Software as a Product manager in 2020, Jan spent 10 years in Ricardo Technical Consulting where he was in charge of structural finite element analysis of powertrain components as a Principal analysis engineer.
This webinar is sponsored by Ricardo Software.
