Facing Future Challenges in Crash Simulation Engineering – Model Organization, Quality and Management at Porsche

Numerical simulation has become an indispensable tool in car crash analysis, reducing the number of physical experiments and driving the engineering process. While the predictive capabilities of the simulation models have greatly increased in recent years, so has the level of detail, the complexity and the number of load cases analyzed. Dealing with these complexities can become a burden distracting engineers from their main task: the vehicle development process. It is therefore essential to provide automated, standardized and robust simulation processes in order to support the engineers throughout all steps of pre-processing, simulation and post-processing.