COMPUTING APPLICATIONS FOR

AUTOMOBILE DESIGN AND SIMULATION

COURSE SYLLABUS
 COURSE SYLLABUS
• Chassis Control System and • Body Development
Driver Assistance System • Body-in-White Design and
Development Materials Choice
• Vehicle Modeling • CAE for Stress Analysis and Collision
• State Feedback Control Concept • Tuning
Exterior and
• Tuning Selection and • Prototype
Interior
• Simulation Development
Drafting
Target

Dynamics,
Initial
and Handling
Calculation
Evaluating
• Thermal Management/ and Choice • Chassis/Drivetrain Development
Simulations
Aerodynamics Development • Calculation and Design
• CAD Design • CAE for Static Structural Analysis
• CAE for Fluid Dynamics Analysis/
• CAE for Transient Structural Analysis
Thermal Analysis
• Tuning and Prototype • Tuning and Prototype
 COURSE SYLLABUS
STAGE 1: CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Dynamics, and Handling
Evaluating Simulations

Longitudinal Dynamics Lateral Dynamics/ Vertical Dynamics/

Simulation Handling Simulation Comforting Simulation

Matlab Simulink
Matlab
Computing tools Simulink Powertrain Blockset
AVL Cruise
Simscape Driveline
 COURSE SYLLABUS
STAGE 2: DETAIL DESIGN

Chassis Frame/Body Development

COMPUTING TOOLS
Powertrain/Chassis Components
Development ANSYS
STRUCTURAL
DESIGN/PART
DESIGN
Thermal Management/
Aerodynamics Analysis

CARSIM
Chassis Control System and Driver
Assistance System Development
MATLAB/SIMULINK
 COURSE SCHEDULE

LEARNING LEARNING
WEEK CONTENT ASSESSMENT
METHODS ACTIVITY

Chapter 1: Fundamental of vehicle simulation and

1 Traditional
design
2 – 3 Chapter 2: Vehicle dynamics modelling and simulation Flipped Quiz
Chapter 3: Applications of Matlab in automotive
4–5 Flipped Quiz
dynamics simulation
Chapter 4: Applications of Simulink in automotive
6–7 Flipped Quiz
dynamics simulation
Introduction to State Feedback Control Design Formal
8
Exam exam
 COURSE SCHEDULE

LEARNING LEARNING
WEEK CONTENT ASSESSMENT
METHODS ACTIVITY

9 Chapter 5: Vehicle simulation using CarSim Flipped Quiz

Chapter 6: CAE in automotive designing and
10 Flipped Quiz
manufacturing – Static Structural
Chapter 6: CAE in automotive designing and
11 Flipped Quiz
manufacturing – Transient Structural
Chapter 6: CAE in automotive designing and
12 Flipped Quiz
manufacturing – Fluid Dynamics
Discussion
13 - 14 Project process
and practice
15 Project report
 COURSE SYLLABUS
WEEK CONTENT ASSESSMENT
1 Chapter 1: Fundamental of vehicle simulation and analysis
Chapter 2: Basics of Matlab
2 Chapter 3: Vehicle dynamics modelling and simulation
3.1 Vertical vehicle dynamics Excercises
3.2 Lateral vehicle dynamics
3 Chapter 3: Vehicle dynamics modelling and simulation
Excercises
3.3 Longitudinal vehicle dynamics
4 Chapter 4: Vehicle dynamics simulation in Simulink
4.1 Basics of Simulink Excercises
4.2 Simulation of vehicle dynamics in Simulink
5 Chapter 4: Vehicle dynamics simulation in Simulink
4.2 Simulation of vehicle dynamics in Simulink
4.4 Introduction to Matlab/Simulink automotive applications Excercises
examples
 COURSE SYLLABUS
WEEK CONTENT ASSESSMENT
6 Chapter 5: Vehicle analysis and simulation using CarSim and ADAM Car
5.1 Introduction to CarSim
5.2 Vehicle analysis and simulation using CarSim
5.3 Introduction to ADAM Car

7 Chapter 5: Vehicle analysis and simulation using CarSim and ADAM Car Presentation
(Group of 5)
8 Chapter 6: CAE in the automotive industry
6.1 Computer-aid engineering (CAE) in the automotive
industry
6.2 CAE tools used in the automotive industry
6.3 ANSYS introduction
6.4 Aerodynamic Analysis of a Car Model using Fluent- ANSYS

9 Chapter 6: CAE in the automotive industry Final thesis

6.5 Design and analysis of vehicle chassis frame in ANSYS (group of 2)
 TEXT BOOKS AND REFERENCES
Chapter 1 – 4:
1. Rajesh Rajamani, Vehicle Dynamics and Control, Springer, 2012.
2. N.H. Sơn, N. Quận, T.T. Triển and L.P.Thuận, Phương pháp tính ứng dụng với
Matlab, NXB ĐH Quốc gia TP. HCM, 2018
3. Matlab Help
4. Kai Velten, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation: Introduction for
Scientists and Engineers, WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim,
2009
5. Andrew Knight, Basics Of Matlab And Beyond, CRC Press LLC, 2000
6. Reza N. Jazar, Vehicle Dynamics:Theory and Application, Springer, 2008.
7. Massimo Guiggiani, The Science of Vehicle Dynamics, Springer, 2014
 TEXT BOOKS AND REFERENCES

Chapter 5:
1. N.V. Hiện, Mô phỏng động lực học trên ô tô bằng các phần mềm
máy tính, Graduate Thesis, HCMUTE, 2014
2. Nghiên cứu ứng dụng phần mềm ADAM, Graduate Thesis, HCMUTE,
2014
Chapter 6:
1. ANSYS 18.2 Helps