The Role of CFD in Product Development

摘要

Previous research from the Aberdeen Group (the November 2008 Engineering Evolved study) found that those leveraging three or more different types of simulations are able to reduce the number of physical prototypes by 37%. For complex products, this reduction in physical prototypes leads to cost reductions of up to $332,673 - and removes 118 days from the development process. To explore this further, in a study released this spring, Getting Product Design Right the First Time with CFD, Aberdeen investigated the impact of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) on the product development process. For this research, those who developed products that would most benefit from CFD were isolated and their practices examined. These companies were identified as those whose products were affected by: