PreonLab 7.1 introduces the new Virtual Wind Tunnel, an exciting new capability that enables users to generate steady and transient airflows directly within PreonLab. Based on an integrated FVM solver, the Virtual Wind Tunnel is designed to support early-stage vehicle soiling studies by significantly shortening the loop between airflow generation, simulation setup, and design iteration.
This release also further improves the higher-order thermal solver introduced in the previous version. PreonLab 7.1 delivers gains in both simulation speed and accuracy across a range of benchmark and validation cases. These advances make conjugate heat transfer simulations increasingly feasible within a single simulation environment, while also improving decoupled workflows through updates such as the improved higher-order sensor and the time-averaged local reference temperature.
PreonLab 7.1 places a strong focus on workflow and usability improvements, shaped directly by feedback from experienced users, and addresses the everyday details that make a real difference in simulation work. New features such as simulation stopping criteria, additional sensor data export options, calculated properties, scene access, and concurrency control help make PreonLab faster to use, easier to manage, and more reliable in collaborative environments.
What’s more?
Users can also look forward to important additions in vehicle dynamics and rigid body functionality. The Full Car Suspension Model has been extended with improved steering and cornering behavior, distance-based trajectories, offering more predictable, velocity-independent vehicle paths. On top of that, external forces and torques can now be applied to dynamic rigid bodies, enabling more realistic simulation setups and opening new possibilities such as considering frictional torques and rotational motor effects during simulation.
Tune in to the release event to explore all the updates and see how PreonLab 7.1 helps make advanced simulation faster, more accurate, and more efficient.
