We were delighted to have Danilo Oliveira from General Motors present at the 2022 SIMULIA Great Lakes Regional User Meeting, June 8, 2022.

Abstract: Automakers know that an electric car’s range is very sensitive to the vehicle's coefficient of drag. In order to optimize the coefficient of drag, Cd, for a specific vehicle, many hours of computational fluid dynamics simulations and physical tests are spent. However, due to the different boundary conditions, i.e. open road domain or closed loop wind tunnel, the results can be different. This study investigates the flow field differences between an automotive full-scale wind tunnel and open road conditions on a production electric vehicle using CFD.

Biography: Danilo Oliveira is an aerodynamicist engineer at General Motors and holds a master degree's in Contamination Simulations from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He joined General Motors in 2010 and has developed different vehicle body styles, such as SUVs, Pickup trucks and Performance Vehicles. Currently, Danilo is one of the aerodynamic leaders for electric vehicles at GM.

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