While PAM-FLOW has application throughout industry, it is particularly suited for Performance, Safety and Comfort applications.

Performance

• Numerical Vehicle Wind Tunnel.
  Can handle all types of automotive configurations, from styling mock-ups to production level geometries with extensive detail, including front-end, underhood and underbody.
• Prediction for performance characteristics of rotating machinery, including accurate prediction of non-linear stator/rotor interaction.

Safety

• Simulations of vehicle instabilities (static cross-wind simulation and dynamic passing simulation) for vehicle performance, safety and comfort at high speed cruising.
• Airbag deployment simulation covering virtual airbag tank testing and out of position (OOP) airbag deployment simulations
• Bio-fluid mechanics for occupant safety analysis during vehicle impacts

Comfort

• Computational aero-acoustics prediction for dipole pressure sound sources, including wind noise prediction for vehicles (external and internal), and noise source prediction for internal components such as fans, ducts etc.
• Climate control comfort estimation using flow and thermal coupled simulation

PAM-FLOW is a part of ESI Group's virtual-try out space (VTOS) solution. The fluid-structure interaction capability obtained by coupling with PAM-CRASH, PAM-SAFE and PAM-SHOCK provides a compelling value-chain of virtual prototyping solutions.