LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Thermal Management helps model the overall energy balance of an engine in a single platform by considering thermal interactions between the lubrication and cooling systems, the thermal engine, the combustion chamber and the intake and exhaust pipes.
System integration is one of the current challenges faced by car manufacturers and suppliers, especially in the field of engine thermal management. To ensure engine performance and design low consumption and low emission engines, while providing the best possible comfort to passengers, engineers have to be able to optimize the engine warm-up.
With LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim tools, users can model engine warm-up and associated key-criteria (consumption, cabin heating) in a specific normalized cycle and rapidly study the influence of topological modifications of each subsystem (split cooling, energy storage tank, engine material changes, electric pump).
LMS Imagine.Lab Engine Thermal Management comes as a set of physics-based libraries such as Thermal, Thermal-Fluid and application libraries like Cooling Systems, IFP-Engine (combustion chamber thermal losses). Each product assists the user in building individual subsystems, analyzing their independent behavior, and defining interaction ports with the other subsystems. Finally, all the modules are connected together to create the engine thermal management model in a single environment.
This model is able to:
- Perform sensitivity analyses and optimization of the systems
- Test new heat management strategies (split cooling, electric pump and thermostat, water passage size, energy storage tank, additional heaters)
- Test new engine architectures (double cylinder block water jacket, new engine materials, thermal screen integration)
- Create fuel consumption simulators
