Today’s vehicles are vastly more fuel efficient than their predecessors two decades ago. Yet, with increasing fuel prices and the upcoming fuel efficiency standard, fuel economy remains a key challenge for automotive engineers. While technologies such as variable valve timing, turbo-charging, new generation of transmissions promise efficiency improvement, they also add many more design parameters. The traditional method of experimenting with a couple of parameters at a time using prototype vehicles can be time consuming and may leave room for further optimization in the vehicle design.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate a simulation-led design optimization approach that involves

• Building fast and accurate multi-domain system level simulation
• Optimizing the value of key design parameters such as shift schedule and axle ratio
• Speeding up simulation and optimization runs using parallel computing

A Q&A session will follow the presentation and demos.