Renault Reduces Fuel Consumption by Optimizing Engine Water Pumps with CFD

Drastically reducing CO2 emissions is essential in the automotive industry today. And it is no surprise that simulation can play a major part in finding solutions for this important challenge. Simulation can provide insight, reduce time-to-market, improve reliability, and reduce engineering cost for new and optimized vehicle design. Renault understood this very well. In response to the huge environmental pressure, they push the designs of every component of their engines to  maximum efficiency and they use computational fluid dynamics for the optimization of pump, turbochargers, fans and more. Everything to obtain maximum performance with minimum fuel. In this webinar Alain Lefebvre, Fluid Systems Simulation Expert at Renault, explains one case in detail: the optimization of the water pump of an internal combustion engine; pumps that are also present in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles.