High Performance Simulation of Internal Combustion Engines

At the moment, the design process of piston engines is mainly characterized by building, testing and modifying prototypes. Computer simulation is used as a complimentary tool and in research, mainly because setting up, calculating and analyzing an ICE simulation currently has turnaround times of several weeks. All steps of the simulation, pre-processing, calculation and post-processing, had to be accelerated to create a usable tool for the industrial development process. Therefore, the EC Esprit project HPS-ICE (High Performance Simulation of Internal Combustion Engines) was set up with the partners Computational Dynamic Ltd., Daimler Benz AG, SGI, HLRS and VOLVO. The goal of the project is to reduce the time for a complete cycle to one week by using advanced methods for all steps of the simulation cycle. This paper describes the results of the project and a lookout into the future development.