Automotive Simulation: Piston Skirt Performance Optimization

For automotive manufacturers and suppliers, product development is a costly and time-consuming endeavor, often hindered by demanding customer expectations, strict regulations, and competitive pressures. Advanced engineering simulations play a crucial role in the early stages of vehicle development by allowing engineers to iterate designs without physical prototypes, although these simulations typically require significant computational resources and time. A Tier 1 automotive supplier addressed these challenges by using Rescale to optimize the profile of a piston skirt in an internal combustion engine, aiming to minimize power loss due to contact friction under various load conditions. The supplier conducted over 150 simulations per load condition using a fully parametric 3D model, accounting for thermal and mechanical deformation, with proprietary code executed across a dynamically provisioned 32-processor cluster. This approach significantly reduced simulation runtime by over 90% and saved approximately 120 hours of engineering manpower compared to local computing, while maintaining high-security standards for data handling.

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