AxSTREAM for Radial Turbine Design

Key Features and Benefits

• Mixed radial/axial flow path design "from scratch" using a small number of basic parameters and a set of geometric constraints.
  
  
• Interactive meridional design of radial turbine stage.
  
  
• Enhancement and optimization of stage radial and meridional dimensions.
  
  
• Corporate-value features: loadable custom-defined fluid models and loss models.
  
  
• Camberline/Thickness profiling methods with interactive editing.
  
  
• Meanline analysis of mixed radial/axial turbomachinery flow path using as-designed and off-design operational conditions.
  
  
• Radial stage axisymmetric analysis.
  
  
• Integrated optimizer based on design-of-experiment (DoE) methodology capable of developing radial turbine characteristics curves and searching for optimal solution of multi-criteria problems.
  
  
• Performance map generation.
  
  
• Interactive 3D turbine airfoil design.
  
  
• Capability to export 3D radial turbine airfoil geometry in formats acceptable for Numeca, CFX, etc. CFD solvers and in IGES format for CAD/CAE packages.
  
  
• Express 3D structural and modal analysis (including Campbell diagram) of radial turbine blade via embedded FEA module with automatic mesh generation – AxSTRESS.
  
  
• 3D CFD flow analysis via embedded CFD calculation solver AxCFD with automatic mesh generation and post-processing of obtained results.
  
  
• Flow charts and charts for blade loading on Profiling module.
  
  
• Detailed Mollier diagram.