Simulation X: Improving Powertrain Design with ESI's SimulationX

Figure 1.System model (left) shows a whole powertrain system, with an integrated continuously variable transmission (CVT). The 3D-visualization (right) shows a part of this system simulated. (Image courtesy of ESI Group.) Engineers designing powertrains and systems need to optimize multiple requirements that often seem to be mutually exclusive. For example, improved energy efficiency is a requirement for nearly all designs, and it drives effort to reduce the mass of the component parts. Altho...