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Engine simulator
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Engine simulator

Engine simulator

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Lotus Engineering's Engine simulator is a time history based one, that is, it uses a one dmensional wave approach ( I think). The demo version is single cylinder only, but that will kill your cpu for days at a time if you build complex intakes and exhausts. Literally - 4 days on my Athlon 1700 to run 7 speeds.

Rather nicely it predicts sfc as well.

I haven't dug into the theory behind how it works, so far, but it is worth a look.

www.lesoft.co.uk

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Greg Locock

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RE: Engine simulator

How do you get the license file??

RE: Engine simulator

Single cylinder and limited to 3 sensors simulation is freeware. It doesn't need a license.
Thank you Greg for the link!

RE: Engine simulator

It asked me for a licence number.
It won't work. I must have down loaded the wrong one then.

RE: Engine simulator

Does anyone have any intake/exhaust noise predictions from this particular simulation package?  If so, any good?

RE: Engine simulator

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It is a combustion simulator, it is not designed for noise work

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RE: Engine simulator

I just though that since it is a direct WAVE/GT/BOOST competitor, it may also predict orifice noise like they do.  Noise prediction from 1D codes is big business.

- Steve

RE: Engine simulator

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I was wondering about that as well. You could probably put a pressure sensor in the tailpipe, thinking about it. That would work well enough.

I haven't tried it, though.

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RE: Engine simulator

Greg,

The usual method is to treat the orifice as a monopole source, using the instantaneous predicted velocity to derive volume flow rate.  Then use a linear radiation model to radiate to the far field. 1D codes are usually pretty good at predicting orifice velocity.


(I noticed NVH was one of your fields, so the above should make sense).

- Steve

RE: Engine simulator

I am playing with this software and it can someway compute the SPL in intake and/or exhaust

Ale

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