Axial Hydraulic Turbine Design

Key Features and Benefits

• AxSTREAM Hydro software helps with creation of new designs, analysis of existing design and retrofitting of axial hydraulic turbines.
• Design the flow path of axial hydraulic turbines from scratch using a small number of basic parameters and a set of geometric constraints.
• Simple and intuitive access to all design parameters.
• Custom measurement units setting.
• Preliminary design and geometry configuration with functionality to pre-screen, visualize and verify hundreds of designs. Capability to optimize passage dimensions and number of blades.
• Calculation model may include various elements, including pipes, ducts, L-channel, etc.
• Flowpath meanline analysis and optimization, which supports “as-designed” and “off-design” operational conditions.
• Meanline and through flow analysis of multistage turbines.
• Performance maps generation.
• Wide variety of profiling methods with support of interactive editing.
• 3D airfoil design in automatic and interactive modes with geometric and strength criteria monitoring. Custom stacking.
• Export of airfoils geometry to CAD/CAE programs in IGES and STL.
• Easy end versatile copy/paste system for elements exchange between the projects.
• Experimentally confirmed empiric and custom loss models utilization.
• Multidisciplinary optimizer AxPLAN based on design-of-experiment methodology. Helps to search for optimal solution for multi-criteria problems.
• Generation of cascades with interactive editing and optimization. Flow and boundary calculation.
• AxSTRESS module for express structural and modal analysis with automatic mesh generation.
• AxSLICE module for automatic recognition of CAD and laser-scanned objects. Very useful for retrofitting, reverse engineering and benchmark tasks based on existing machines.
• Possibility to create, manage and store experiments to compare design solutions.
• User-friendly window interface with project management capabilities.
• Automatic custom report generation.
• Bundle licensing structure allows client to choose one of two task-oriented software packages.