Course detail

Multiphysical Simmulation in Automotive Industry

FSI-QMO Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

Supervisor

prof. Ing. Pavel Novotný, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automotive Engineering

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The course-unit credit is conditioned by active participation in the seminars, proper preparation of the semester work and fulfillment of the conditions of the control tests. The exam verifies the knowledge gained during lectures and seminars and is divided into a written theoretical part, part of the computational solution of lubrication, fluid flow and heat transfer, and an oral part. The exam considers the work of the student in the exercise. The student must score more than one-half of the total points for the successful completion of the test. An oral examination can test the student's knowledge of the subject and influence the final grade.

Exercises are compulsory, and the form of replacing the missed lessons is solved individually by the lecturer or with the course guarantor. Lectures are optional but strongly recommended.

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 6 credits, compulsory-optional

Programme N-AAE-P: Advanced Automotiv Engineering, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 6 credits, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Basic concepts in multiphysical simulations

  2. Advanced volume discretization methods with applications to motor vehicles and powertrains

  3. Fundamentals of fluid flow and heat transfer using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

  4. Fluid flow domain and boundary condition modelling by CFD

  5. Numeric solution of transport equations

  6. Modelling of turbulent fluid flow by CFD

  7. Modelling of transient turbulent fluid flow by CFD

  8. Modelling of heat transfer by CFD

  9. Component lubrication description

  10. Modelling of hydrodynamic lubrication with application to turbocharger bearings

  11. Lubrication modelling of highly loaded contact pairs with application to powertrains

  12. Modelling of external aerodynamics with application to passenger vehicles

  13. Modelling of thermodynamics with application to centrifugal compressors of turbochargers

Computer-assisted exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Introduction of tools for CFD application

  2. Application of mesh generation methods for solids and domains

  3. Application of mesh generation methods for CFD simulations

  4. Creation of computational models for CFD simulations

  5. Application basics for CFD tools

  6. Simulation of component lubrication using CFD

  7. Simulation of flow in a turbocharger compressor

  8. Simulation and analysis of component lubrication

  9. Simulation of oil flow in the lubrication system

  10. Simulation and analysis of external aerodynamics of vehicle components

  11. Simulation of the vehicle external aerodynamics

  12. Simulation of gas flow through a thin gap

  13. Test in the form of a practical application of a CFD tool