Following the success of the previous three workshops 
(Oxford, 2019, Berlin, 2021 and Barcelona, 2022), we’re 
proud to announce that the 4th Automotive CFD Prediction 
Workshop (AutoCFD 4) will be held in 2024, in person, on 
Sept 26th/27th at Queen’s University Belfast.

The main objective of the 4th Automotive CFD Prediction 
Workshop is to assess the predictive capability of CFD codes 
for road-cars geometries. Through mandatory geometry, 
boundary conditions and computational grids the aim is to 
provide practical modelling guidelines to the automotive 
community e.g best-practice turbulence modelling, meshing, 
numerical schemes. In addition we want to bring the 
automotive CFD community (both academia and 
industry)together to discuss future directions. The test-
cases for the 4th workshop remain the same as per the 3rd 
workshop to enable participants to continue their research 
and progress on the existing cases that still have many 
unresolved challenges.

Computing the test-cases is not required to attend the 
workshop but we strongly encourage everyone to consider 
submitting results.

Technology Focus Groups
For this workshop we will use a Technology Focus Group (TFG) 
model (inspired by the 4th AIAA high-lift CFD prediction 
workshop) where each participant is requested to join a TFG 
which covers 5 core areas. These groups meet every 4-5 weeks 
and collaboratively share findings and results as we move 
towards the workshop. The purpose is to encourage deeper 
discussions over a longer period, compared to only seeing 
other results and having a discussion during the 2 days of 
the workshop. The TFG leaders and contacts details are 
below. Please reach out to them to be included in the 
monthly meetings:
 Meshing TFG - Vangelis Skaperdas (BETA-CAE Systems)
Noise Factors TFG - Burkhard Hupertz (Ford)
AI/ML TFG - Neil Ashton (AWS) and Astrid Walle (Siemens 
Energy)
Scale Resolving Simulations (SRS) TFG - Charles Mockett and 
Marian Fuchs (Upstream CFD)
HPC TFG - Hebert Owen and Oriol Lehmkuhl (Barcelona 
Supercomputing Center)

A description of the scope and goals of each TFG and our 
data policy can be found at https://autocfd.org/.


Organizers
Ben Thornber (Queens University Belfast) - Local Organiser
Neil Ashton (Amazon Web Services)
Burkhard Hupertz (Ford)
Gary Page (Loughborough University)
Charles Mockett (Upstream CFD)
Astrid Walle (Siemens Energy)
Vangelis Skaperdas (BETA-CAE Systems)
Oriol Lehmkuhl (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Herbert Owen (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Charles Ribes (Stellantis)