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Constant progress in simulation speed and accuracy makes possible to reduce the amount of physical tests needed to develop an engine and to replace them by simulations to save time and costs. A virtual validation plan is defined at the start of an engine program.

Few years later, a retrospection is done to identify the simulations which were missing or the physical tests which could have been covered by simulations.

The goals of this project are:

• To re-examine coolant and air systems (excluding combustion) simulations and tests in a past engine project;
• To propose improvement in measurements to get more comparable outputs between physical and virtual tests;
• to identify the physical tests which could be replaced. Several aspects will be considered like total timing and cost, accuracy, reliability.