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Ricardo is a leading provider of technology, product innovation, engineering solutions, powertrain design software, and strategic consulting to the world’s automotive industries. With facilities in China and Japan as well as Europe and North America, Ricardo is able to take on the greatest challenges in the industry including business strategy and restructuring, process re-engineering, vehicle, engine, transmission and driveline design, engineering, testing and systems integration.

Ricardo Software develops, markets and supports a range of software products for powertrain design and development and vehicle integration. New features and capabilities are continually under development in each product, enabling licensees to benefit from the very latest technology. The large base of licensees ensures that the software development process is effectively targeted at the needs of the users. Details of some of the most popular Ricardo Software products are provided below:

WAVE is the market-leading quality assured engine performance and 1D gas dynamics simulation software used worldwide in all industry sectors including motor sport, automotive, motorcycle, truck, agricultural, locomotive, marine and power generation. WAVE enables performance simulations to be carried out based on virtually any intake, combustion and exhaust system design, and a new driveline model allows complete vehicle simulations.

VECTIS is a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics program that has been developed specifically to address fluid flow simulations in the vehicle and engine industries. VECTIS is developed around a completely automatic hexahedral mesh generator, providing a rapid turn-around time for CFD analyses. This automatic mesh generation capability, together with easy-to-use mesh motion, gives VECTIS a distinct advantage over most other commercial CFD tools in that it allows CFD to be an integral part of modern engineering development programs.

ENGDYN is a compete simulation environment for analyzing the dynamics of the engine and powertrain. It provides an environment for 3D, time domain, non-linear dynamic, coupled analysis of the crankshaft and cylinder block system including EHD lubrication.

VALDYN is the market-leading dynamics simulation package which has been specifically developed for valvetrain and drive system analysis. The package incorporates a graphical user interface which allows complex models to be constructed rapidly and accurately. With its detailed "building block" models of valvetrain components, VALDYN can be significantly more efficient than many of the general purpose dynamics tools as model refinement is focused on those aspects critical to valvetrain dynamics.

PISDYN is an advanced simulation package for the design and analysis of piston assemblies. It simulates the lubrication of the piston-liner interface and the wrist pin bearing based on its calculation of the forces, torques and secondary motions of the piston, wrist pin and connecting rod as a function of crank angle over a complete engine cycle.

RINGPAK is a simulation package that has been developed for the tribological analysis of a piston ring pack. The software involves a completely integrated modelling approach to address issues related to friction, lubrication, wear, blowby and oil consumption. These intricately coupled phenomena are handled through detailed phenomenological models which enable the user to analyze various aspects of ring pack performance.

FEARCE is the Ricardo powertrain finite element environment which enables users to seamlessly link a wide range of commercial FE solvers and pre- and post-processors as well as its own in-built utilities. FEARCE enables users to automate many of the more time-consuming and intricate processes of powertrain FE, potentially improving efficiency as well as repeatability, traceability and accuracy of analysis work.

SABR is a three-dimensional simulation package specifically developed for transmission shaft and bearing system analysis. It provides a user-friendly graphical environment to enable whole transmissions to be constructed rapidly and accurately, and its advanced solver enables the transmission to be assessed in terms of bearing life, shaft deflection and shaft stress concentration.

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