Automotive & motorsport
Simulation for automotive and motorsport engineering
External aerodynamics for bodies and wings, underhood and battery cooling where the fluid and the solid both matter, rotating fan and pump internals, and the wind noise a shape produces. Parametrised cases make an aero sweep a change of one number rather than a new model.
Questions this answers
- What does this body do to drag and downforce through a ride-height sweep?
- Does the underhood package stay within temperature at idle and at speed?
- How much air does this fan actually move against the system it sits in?
- Where is the wind noise coming from at motorway speed?
- What are the surface temperatures on a pack under a duty cycle?
The analysis types that do it
Each of these is a case type in the application, not a configuration you assemble. Every one runs in the free build — the free tier limits mesh size and cores, never which physics you may use.
And in the other modules
Structural, thermal and electromagnetics ship alongside fluids. Only the types that run today are listed.
Backends underneath
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Open-source solvers, selected and configured from the case type. You can still read every dictionary the application writes.
When it will not fit on your machine
Paid accounts can send meshing and solving to SHD Cloud and keep working locally. The estimate is shown before the run starts.
What this does not do
- No moving-ground or rotating-wheel presets. A ground-plane sweep is set up by hand like any other boundary.
- Crash and occupant safety are explicit-dynamics work and are not in the product.
- Cabin comfort indices are not computed. The thermal field is; the index is not.
Naming a sector here says the physics suits the work. It is not a claim that anyone in it is a customer.