Thermal Management Services
Thermal management simulation is essential in the development process of every new vehicle. Knowing the precise thermal influences of components is necessary for an optimal design as it influences energy consumption, emissions, noise, fatigue, and other parameters. But the necessary expertise to perform the required sophisticated simulations and calculations becomes more and more complex.
At ECS we have experience with thermal management for more than 25 years. You can leverage this expertise by ordering a simulation project. Different categories of projects are available, e.g.:
- Full featured complete thermal management projects, including KULI simulation, CFD simulation, and measurements
- KULI simulation projects to solve a problem completely by us
- Assistance for your KULI team for certain tasks; either at our location or on-site
- Improving your KULI simulation environment, e.g. by setting up Excel macros or linking KULI to your Matlab/Simulink Environment
Our range of experience includes the following areas:
Passenger car projects, including the following topics:
- Concept studies - size and position of cooling components
- Engine variations and front end studies
- Temperature and fuel consumption simulation for driving cycles
- Hybrid and e-car thermal management, from battery to vehicle Level
- HVAC performance simulations (cool-down and heat-up incl. heat pump)
Bus & truck projects, including the following topics:
- EURO IV/V/VI measures for efficient cooling
- EGR and charge air pre-cooling
- Fan control and transient simulation
- Waste Heat Recovery
- Hybrid vehicles, including battery cooling, e-motor cooling, etc.
Offroad projects, including the following topics:
- System optimization oil - charge air - coolant
- Adjusting cooling package to meet the requirements of the latest emissions legislation
- Cooling air flow optimization for rear mounted cooling package
- Climatisation of driver cabin of e.g. farm tractors, excavators, etc.
In almost all these projects KULI is used as the central tool. The close cooperation between the KULI development team and the KULI projects team enables us to fully exploit all features of KULI in our projects. Moreover, suggestions and improvements for KULI that turn out in those projects are quickly implemented into KULI.
A project can also be combined with other services. In particular it is often interesting to couple a heat management simulation with
- CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations
- Thermal management measurements
- Acoustic measurements and optimizations
- Thermo shock or vibration tests of radiators or complete cooling packages
- and much more.
The Engineering Center in St. Valentin has expertise in all these areas. Click on the links above for further information.
If you are interested in our thermal engineering capabilities, please feel free to get in contact with us.
