New Software Combination for Engine and Powertrain Analysis

16 April 2007

Reaction Design and Gamma Technologies have partnered to release GT-POWER/KINetics, an advanced software tool for simulating detailed gas-phase and gas-surface chemistry in an engine or powertrain flow.

GT-POWER/KINetics closely couples Reaction Design’s KINetics chemistry-solver technology with Gamma Technologies’ GT-POWER software.

GT-POWER is an engine and powertrain simulation tool, used by leading engine and vehicle makers and their suppliers. It is also used for marine and electric power-generation engines, small two- and four-stroke engines as well as powertrains used in competitive race circuits. It provides the components to model any advanced concept.

GT-POWER is also used for aftertreatment modeling, including three-way, selective catalytic reduction (SCR), Lean NO_x Trap (LNT) and oxidation catalysts. In combination with KINetics, detailed analyses of catalyst light-off, poisoning and other phenomena are possible, all with detailed surface chemistry.

GT-POWER/KINetics is designed to efficiently and accurately simulate “stiff” gas phase and/or surface chemistry with detailed kinetic mechanisms, including the production and destruction of trace species.

Using GT-POWER’s engine and flow capabilities, GT-POWER/KINetics simulates the entire powertrain in a fully coupled manner allowing designers to have full visibility of the chemistry effects in their system.