VPO™ Features

Features unique to BSSI

• Boundary Integral Techniques
  • With new Singular Integral formulation
• Thin Surface Mesh Decomposition
  • And Re-combination
• Real Time-Stepping
  • With variable time steps
• MPI-2 Parallel Processing
  • For the fastest computations

VPO™ Thin-Surface Meshes

• A NEW type of computational mesh
• Incorporating:
  • Domain intelligence
    • specific to the automotive industry
  • Necessary PHYSICS to address
    • Electrochemical modeling, and virtual paint operations
• Essential for a feasible computation
  • With the added benefit:
    • The same mesh is used for all VPO™ Tools:
      • EPD, Baking, Time-2-Drain, Voids, SDM,…

Real Time Stepping

To simulate painting operations

• All VPO™ tools use real time stepping
  • With a variable time step
  • Chosen to reflect the physics of the simulated process
  • Examples
    • In VPO™ EPD, every 1/10,000th of a second is simulated
    • In VPO™ Baking, every 1/100th of a second is simulated
    • In VPO™ T2D, every 1/1000th of a second is simulated

MPI-2 Parallel Processing

• Used in
  • Commercial VPO™ Tools

• For
  • 64-bit multi-core cluster architectures

• To get
  • FAST simulation of processes