Ansys Forte
Forte robustly and accurately simulates IC engine combustion performance with nearly any fuel, helping engineers rapidly design cleaner burning, high-efficiency, fuel-flexible engines. Coupling Forte's robust, accurate combustion modeling capabilities with automated mesh generation enables engine designers to quickly analyze designs without the mesh generation headache.
Overview
ANSYS Forte is the only CFD simulation package for internal combustion engines that incorporates proven ANSYS Chemkin-Pro solver technology – the gold standard for modeling and simulating gas phase and surface chemistry. Forte includes state-of-the-art automatic mesh generation (AMG), including solution adaptive mesh Refinement (SAM) and geometry-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). While legacy engine-combustion CFD simulations utilize chemistry solvers that are too slow to handle the chemistry details required for accurate predictions of ignition and emissions, Forte enables the use of multicomponent fuel models to combine with comprehensive spray dynamics – without sacrificing simulation time-to-solution.
Features
- Automatic mesh generation that eliminates weeks of effort typically spent on manual mesh preparation
- Embedded Chemkin-Pro solver technology that provides the computational speed required for predictive engine simulations
- True multicomponent fuel-vaporization models that enable a self-consistent representation of the physical spray and the kinetics for accurate prediction of fuel effects
- Advanced spray models that dramatically reduce grid and time-step dependency when compared to existing approaches
- The ability to track soot particle nucleation, growth, agglomeration and oxidation without a compute-time penalty to predict particle size and number
