Exa's PowerFLOW Helps MATECH Win First FIA GT1 World Championship
Race
Exa® Corporation, a global innovator of fluids simulation (CAE/CFD) solutions for product
engineering, today announced that its PowerFLOW® software helped MATECH Competition of
Switzerland to aerodynamically optimize their Ford GT1. This new and more efficient MATECH
racecar won the first race in the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship series of worldwide races.
(PRWEB) June 22, 2010 -- Exa® Corporation, a global innovator of fluids simulation (CAE/CFD) solutions for
product engineering, today announced that its PowerFLOW® software helped MATECH Competition of
Switzerland to aerodynamically optimize their Ford GT1. This new and more efficient MATECH racecar won the
first race in the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship series of worldwide races.
Disappointed with their 2009 vehicle’s drag results at high speeds, MATECH decided to explore simulation in
addition to their physical wind tunnel testing and chose Exa’s PowerFLOW. “Exa’s got a fantastic industry
reputation as the company to work with to aerodynamically optimize your vehicle,” remarked MATECH’s Chief
Race Engineer, José Santos. “We could never have gathered the level of detailed data from our physical tunnel
tests that we did from our Exa PowerFLOW simulations.” Santos continued, “To compare numerical data and be
able to visualize tiny flow structure changes from run to run made the difference in our modification decisions.”
Before the 2010 regulations were even released, MATECH was working on their GT1. “Our 2010 Ford GT1 is
completely new,“ said Thomas Mutch, Driver and Operations Manager for MATECH. “We were committed to
implementing advanced technology to overhaul our vehicle and ensure we put the best possible racecar on the
track. Exa exceeded our expectations and surprised us with the speed in which we could perform fully complex
simulations. Their services group is deep with expertise, and we came to rely on them as extended engineering
team members. Exa PowerFLOW allowed u