ACCELERATING PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT AT JAGUAR LAND ROVER

The Virtual Engineering Centre’s unique ‘sandpit’ model allows technology organisations to enhance their capabilities through virtual innovation, accessing academic research and the latest scientific and technology infrastructure.

Collaborative expertise and access to

supercomputing facilities has enabled the

Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) to create

new virtual engineering processes for

Jaguar Land Rover to accelerate vehicle

product design. The VEC team developed

Computer-Aided-Engineering (CAE) process

templates and optimisation methods to

support future designs for Jaguar Land

Rover which has reduced the time taken

for these processes from several weeks

to a timescale of several days.

THE CHALLENGEWorld class automotive company Jaguar Land

Rover’s approach is to seek opportunities in

technological developments and expertise to

continually improve their development process

and product performance. The VEC combined

their expertise with the team at Jaguar Land

Rover to develop scientific workflows which

optimised Jaguar Land Rover’s modelling and

simulation processes, incorporating multiple

disciplines and regression methods.

THE SOLUTIONThe VEC developed an integrated CAE process

for maximizing vehicle performance in pedestrian

safety according to the EuroNCAP standards

subject to structural stiffness constraints

connected to high performance computing

resources. Hundreds of design variants were

created, invoking powerful modelling tools

though automatic procedures, allowing the

extensive exploration of the design space and

vehicle’s performance. Regression techniques

were used in optimisation workflows,

leading to an optimal design. A key enabler

was the seamless access to the UK’s largest

supercomputing facilities provided by the

VEC’s partnership with the Hartree Centre,

Science and Technology Facilities Council

(STFC), based at the Daresbury Laboratory.

THE BENEFITSVirtual engineering allows organisations to

investigate the performance of products in the

early stages of their design process, minimizing

the use of physical prototypes, resulting in

considerable reductions in time-to-market and

manufacturing costs. The VEC provided fast

interpretation and manipulation of thousands

of results, as well as improved designs, using

accurate numerical methods. Elements of

the developed workflows have already been

adopted by Jaguar Land Rover into their

modelling process and they have been

able to achieve a tenfold increase of the

investigated complex scenarios.

WORK WITH USThe Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) delivers innovative solutions to industry through the exploitation of academic research and the latest scientific and technology infrastructure. Enhancing capability through Virtual Innovation, the VEC is the UK’s leading centre of Virtual Engineering technology integration for industrial and commercial applications.

A collaboration between the University

of Liverpool and the Hartree Centre,

Science and Technology Facilities Council

(STFC) Daresbury Laboratory, the VEC

delivers advanced modelling, simulation

and visualisation solutions and ease

of access to the UK’s most powerful

supercomputing facilities to enable

business growth and competitiveness.

For more information about how your

organisation could benefit from working

with the Virtual Engineering Centre:

+44 (0)1925 864853

virtualengineeringcentre.com