Summary of Resources at Total Sim Ltd
Staff:
TotalSim employs 14 staff:
• 13 engineers
• 1 company secretary, qualified accountant
• 6 have PhD's
• 4 chartered engineers
Experience:
The engineers on average have experience levels of:
• 9 man years of working in CFD
• 6 man years of working in motorsport
The motorsport series that the staff at TotalSim have been involved with include:
• Champ Car
• BTCC and World Touring Car
• IRL
• MotoGP
• F1
• Superbikes
• LMP1
• GP2
• GT1 and GT2
• VdeV
• NASCAR
• Rally
• Top Fuel (drag racing)
Other areas of experience include:
• Road car aerodynamics, including cooling flows
• Food process
• Pharmaceuticals
• Power boat design
Hardware Resources:
TotalSim’s computer hardware resource is always expanding, but at present is:
• Clusters: 22
• Each cluster is 24 core
• Each cluster solves approx. 1.2 detailed full car (50 million cells) aerodynamic CFD runs per day
• Total solving power is:
• cores 504
• memory 1344 gb
• ~250 full car runs per week
• CFD workstations
10 x 32gb ram, 4 core, 2 cpu
1 x 64gb ram, 4 core, 2 cpu
1 x 64gb ram, 8 core, 2 cpu
Software Resources:
Current software used at TotalSim, with license levels, includes:
• ANSA 4
• Ensight 1
• Sculptor 2
• Fluent serial 1
• Fluent parallel 11
• Tgrid 2
• 3-matic 3
• OpenFOAM n/a
• NX Nastran 1
Areas of Expertise:
TotalSim considers it’s areas of expertise to include:
• Aerodynamic design, particularly racecar
• Efficiency, solving design challenges with tight budgets and timescales
• Optimisation methods for aero and general fluids problems
• Knowledge of OpenFOAM and support of this open source CFD code