Education

AxSTREAM Training Workshop for Professional Designers AxSTREAM offers a range of turbomachinery flow path design, analysis and optimization capabilities and a level of effectiveness that are unsurpassed in its price range. The best way to truly learn and understand these capabilities and how they can strengthen your company’s design efforts and enhance your current design tools in a cost effective way is to participate in a 3-day training workshop. These workshops are taught by senior engineers that are specialists in all versions of AxSTREAM. While there is a general course outline that covers both axial and radial turbomachinery, each course is tailored to the desires and objectives of the specific attendees, and special topical breakout sessions are often scheduled. More details >> Axial Turbine Fundamentals Course

This 2-day course provides an in-depth insight into the basics of axial turbine (steam and gas) and their elements, including turbine designs and cycles, initial turbine sizing, multistage turbines, turbine calculation, design and off-design operating modes, profiling and 3D blade design. It is dedicated to engineers who want to acquire detailed knowledge of axial turbine gas dynamics, thermodynamics and structural analysis.

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Axial Compressor Fundamentals Course

This 2-day course is dedicated to engineers working in the power generation and aircraft engine industries who want to gain an in-depth insight into axial compressor design and operation. The program covers the axial compressor basics, aerodynamic design, off-design performances prediction, profiling and 3D blade design.

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Centrifugal Compressor Fundamentals Course

The scope of this 2-day course includes the essential of fluid dynamics, aerodynamic design of centrifugal compressors, sizing of compressor elements, such as impeller, diffuser and volute, off-design performances prediction and design of multistage centrifugal compressors.

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Steam and Gas Turbine Design Training Course

The comprehensive 5-day program covers the key principles of steam and gas turbine design and operation, including thermodynamics, gas dynamics, structural analysis, turbine optimization, tertiary components design and turbine retrofitting. The course contains numerous exercises to enable engineers to apply the knowledge on practice.

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Online Training Courses

The online training is based on the same educational material as the classroom-based courses and allows engineers to study design and optimization of turbines / compressors in real time, without leaving their offices. The program includes 8 hours of lectures (theoretical overview, engineering practice and reviews of home tasks) and 8 hours of consultation (Q&A sessions with SoftInWay’s instructors). Currently available courses: Axial Turbine, Axial Compressor, Centrifugal Compressor and Radial Turbine.

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Free 1-hour Webinar

SoftInWay regularly provides free webinars on design/redesign, analysis, optimization and retrofit of axial/radial turbomachinery flow path. The interactive online course is dedicated to engineers working in the process, power station and airline industries. The program includes a 40-minute presentation followed by an open forum where SoftInWay discusses the most critical issues and answers the attendees’ questions, if any.

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AxSTREAM Educational Version for Colleges and Universities

The educational version of AxSTREAM, available for both axial and radial turbomachinery, provides students and faculty with state-of-the art turbomachinery design and multidisciplinary optimization software at minimal expense.

These programs constitute a “learn as you go” course that aids students in understanding the overall design and performance principles of turbo-machinery through the same fully interactive AxSTREAM™ commercial program used by industrial turbo-machinery manufacturers. The educational version is configured to be easily integrated into the teaching process and course curricula.

Gaining real-world marketable skills in turbomachinery design and multidisciplinary optimization, the student (individually or in study teams) will be able to:

• Design a flow path based on given overall application requirements;
• Appreciate the interactions between aerodynamic performance and mechanical integrity;
• Perform design optimization encompassing 1D and 2D direct problem computation;
• Generate cascade profiles that easily relate to aerodynamic theory;
• Perform fully 3 dimensional blade design

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AxSTREAM Lite

On August 24th, we released AxSTREAM Lite – a free version of AxSTREAM, available to all current turbomachinery engineering students.

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Introductory Seminar on Turbomachinery Flow Path Design with AxSTREAM

In addition to the practical course on turbomachinery design, SoftInWay offers the Introductory Seminar AxSTREAM – Software System for Design, Analysis and Multidisciplinary Optimization of Turbomachinery Flow Path. The seminar’s program covers AxSTREAM basics; usage of the software for axial and radial turbomachinery design, optimization and redesign; and new approaches to turbomachinery design in the international engineering practice. The timeframe is 3-4 hours.

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Custom AxSTREAM Courses

SoftInWay can develop a custom tailored course for groups of individuals or companies that can be taught at SoftInWay headquarters or at the client’s site. Contact us to request additional information.