MDO Using modeFRONTIER and VOLTA Applied to Vehicle Design

Designing a vehicle is the synthesis of many requirements, carried out by several teams, with sometimes conflicting objectives. Historically each team works on its perimeter (e.g. crash, NVH, CFD, durability…), with some convergence meetings in order to share evolutions and progressively converge on a solution satisfying all constraints.

In specific cases, MDO approach is used at Groupe PSA in order to find solutions taking into account several perimeters at the same time. Aim of this presentation is to show how MDO for crash and NVH simulations is handled at Groupe PSA with modeFRONTIER and VOLTA.