Case Study: CNH Industrial reduces prototype costs and accelerates time-to-market with ANSYS Fluent

Tractors Use Virtual Modeling to Reduce Design Time and Costs

CNH Industrial (Case New Holland) needed to optimize cooling for large tractors that use five separate cooling modules within a tightly packaged engine compartment. Balancing increased engine power and limited space while ensuring adequate airflow and minimizing cooling power had previously required multiple costly, time-consuming prototypes. ANSYS (using ANSYS Fluent and ANSYS TGrid) was engaged to address these challenges.

ANSYS implemented full-system flow modeling to simulate airflow and module interactions across the entire engine bay, enabling optimized cooling-module placement and reduced cooling power. As a result, CNH Industrial eliminated fabrication and testing of multiple prototypes, validated the best-design choice with strong agreement between simulation and experiments, increased available engine power for implements, met thermal and packaging requirements, and accelerated time to market.

CNH Industrial