Energy Balance serves as the North American agent for UK-based Ansible Design, providing sales and support for AeroLap and AeroSusp automotive simulation software tools.
AeroLap is a feature-rich, professional vehicle simulation tool
In continuous commercial use for over 20 years, AeroLap is used by professional motorsports teams around the world is series such as F1, Indycar, IMSA, GP2 and GP3, and others. It has also found a place amongst several OEMs.
AeroLap is a stand-alone application that can be run on any modern PC, with an intuitive user interface for model-building, run execution, and viewing of results. Various import and export options are available for compatibility with external tools, and you can optionally leverage AeroLap's API calculation interface to access every single property of the simulation to automate the simulation execution, perform parameter sweeps or optimization, etc.
In continuous commercial use for over 20 years, AeroLap is used by professional motorsports teams around the world is series such as F1, Indycar, IMSA, GP2 and GP3, and others. It has also found a place amongst several OEMs.
AeroLap is a stand-alone application that can be run on any modern PC, with an intuitive user interface for model-building, run execution, and viewing of results. Various import and export options are available for compatibility with external tools, and you can optionally leverage AeroLap's API calculation interface to access every single property of the simulation to automate the simulation execution, perform parameter sweeps or optimization, etc.
What does AeroLap do? AeroLap calculates maximum theoretical vehicle performance around a defined circuit. On-circuit performance for a flying lap is calculated with over 200 different output channels available, just like the data acquisition system on a car, including some channels not possible or very difficult to measure on an actual car. AeroLap can be useful for the following:
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How does AeroLap work?
AeroLap simulations are based on discretizing 3D paths into small segments. For each segment the maximum thrust is applied to the car, according to the authority of the engine or braking system and limited by the grip available, certain driver behaviors, and other forces on the car such as aerodynamics and gravity. A quasi steady-state balance state is then found for the sprung mass and AeroLap moves on to the next path segment. Segments are solved in the most efficient order, which is often not sequentially. When all segments have been solved the results can be presented as a continuous time history for the complete path (lap).
Companion Tools
AeroSusp is a tool for 3D suspension kinematic modeling. It functions a stand-alone tool, and also integrates seamlessly with AeroLap. AeroSusp is used by designers who are creating suspension systems from scratch and by engineers who wish to tune their existing suspension systems. It was carefully designed from the start to avoid the pitfalls of the over-complicated user interface designs that are common amongst other suspension design software tools. |