TEMPERATURE SENSOR RESPONSE TIME OPTIMIZATION
Partner - Continental Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o
automotive
Together with the research and development staff of Continental Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o., a tool for speeding up the design of thermal sensors and their optimization was developed.
In the thermal sensors design, it is necessary to ensure their fast response to the fullest possible extent of the operational parameters such as changeable ambient temperature given by the climate change or rapid change in temperature of the measured operating fluids.
The response of the sensor is affected by both the material properties of its individual components and its geometry itself. In order to set the optimal parameters for the individual components and assess the effect they have on the total response time, an automated tool based on the open source ESPRESO library was created.
In order to compute the response curve required for assessing optimal functionality of the thermal sensor, it is necessary to perform tens or even hundreds of independent, computationally expensive simulations of the response. Using the ESPRESO library based on the finite element method in combination with optimal parallel algorithms, which allow the HPC infrastructure to be used to its full extent, reduces the time required for achieving optimal parameters to its minimum. Moreover, using the open-source solution also minimizes the economic costs incurred when using commercial software solutions and allows the functionality to be extended to other products included in the wide portfolio of Continental Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o.
Partner's note
We highly appreciate our long-term
cooperation with IT4Innovations National
Supercomputing Center. Their consultations
during solving complex problems are led
professionally and helpfully. They are able
to reflect specific impacts of the product,
needs, and opportunities of our company. The
achieved results presented in well-arranged
reports correlate with real tested samples.
The output also includes a computational
model, which can be used for future
optimization. We can therefore consider our
cooperation with IT4Innovations to be highly
productive, and we look forward to our other
joint projects in the future.
Pavel Žáček
Mechanical Engineer Leader BU Sensors & Actuators - Continental Automotive Czech Republic s.r.o