5th Automotive CFD Prediction Workshop
September/October 2026, Location TBC
Announcements
| Mar 31, 2025 | AutoCFD5 will be happening September/October 2026. Further details will be announced shortly. |
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| Dec 17, 2024 | The recording from the final virtual meeting of AutoCFD4 is now available to watch. AutoCFD5 is tentatively scheduled for Sept/Oct 2026 and we will begin sending out more information in early 2025! If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to admin@autocfd.org . |
| Nov 09, 2024 | All the videos and slides from AutoCFD4 are now available online. Please head to the presentations page to watch and read. |
Aims & Scope
AutoCFD5 will be taking place September/October 2026, following the success of the previous four workshops (Oxford, 2019, Berlin, 2021, Barcelona, 2022 and Belfast, 2024). The location will be announced later this year.
The main objective of the 5th Automotive CFD Prediction Workshop will be to continue the community effort to assess the predictive capability of CFD codes for road-cars geometries. Through mandatory geometry, boundary conditions and computational grids the aim is to provide practical modelling guidelines to the automotive community e.g best-practice turbulence modelling, meshing, numerical schemes. In addition we want to bring the automotive CFD community (both academia and industry) together to discuss future directions. The test-cases for AutoCFD5 will be confirmed in Q1 2025.
Computing the test-cases is not required to attend the workshop but we strongly encourage everyone to consider submitting results.
Technology Focus Groups
For this workshop we will continue to use the Technology Focus Group (TFG) model where each particpant is requested to join a TFG which covers 5 core areas. These groups will meet every 4-5 weeks and colloboratively share findings and results as we move towards the workshop. The purpose is to encourage deeper discussions over a longer period, compared to only seeing other results and having a discussion during the 2 days of the workshop. The TFG leaders and contacts details are below. Please reach out to them to be included in the monthly meetings. They will be restarting in April/May 2025.
Meshing TFG - Vangelis Skaperdas (BETA-CAE Systems)
Noise Factors TFG - Burkhard Hupertz (Ford)
AI/ML TFG - Neil Ashton (NVIDIA) and Astrid Walle (Siemens Energy)
Scale Resolving Simulations (SRS) TFG - Charles Mockett and Marian Fuchs (Upstream CFD)
HPC TFG - Hebert Owen and Oriol Lehmkuhl (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
A description of the scope and goals of each TFG can be found here.
Our data policy can be found here.
Organizers
- Neil Ashton (NVIDIA)
- Burkhard Hupertz (Ford)
- Gary Page (Loughborough University)
- Charles Mockett (Upstream CFD)
- Astrid Walle (Siemens Energy)
- Vangelis Skaperdas (BETA-CAE Systems)
- Ben Thornber (Queens University Belfast)
- Herbert Owen (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- Charles Ribes (Stellantis)