AxSTREAM Software for Turbomachinery Design
Complete Turbomachinery Design, From Concept to Final Design
AxSTREAM delivers a complete solution for turbomachinery design, combining accuracy, speed, and flexibility in a single integrated platform. Developed by industry experts, this turbomachinery design software suite supports the full workflow—from concept through final geometry. With modular tools and generative design capabilities, engineers can explore design space, iterate quickly, and develop optimized machines while reducing development time and cost.
Machine Types
Regardless of the machine type (compressor, pump, turbine, fan, blower), configuration (axial, radial, mixed flow, diagonal), or working fluid (steam, gas, sCO2, hydrogen, etc.), AxSTREAM will help you tackle your toughest turbomachinery design challenges with ease.
Turbomachinery Design Capabilities
Generative Preliminary Design
Benefits:
- Stronger preliminary design candidates and early architecture decisions (axial vs. radial, how many stages, etc).
- Less resources are required to optimize your geometry.
- Sits upstream of your current preliminary design capabilities.
Capabilities:
- Perform 1D clean sheet design or redesign from existing equipment regardless of configuration & turbomachine type (blowers/compressors, expanders, fans, pumps, & turbines).
- Generate thousands of geometries within seconds & compare at design & off-design conditions, including surge margin.
- Input parameters (boundary conditions, geometric values, constraints) provided as ranges or fixed values for comprehensive design space exploration
- Analyze design space to narrow in on the best combination of inputs & filter unwanted solutions.
1D-3D Turbomachinery Design & Analysis
Benefits:
- Predict performance, choke (compressors) & cavitation (pumps) early in the design process.
- Compute performance maps in seconds using fast 1D/2D solver.
- Integrated modular-based interface enables fast & robust design process.
- Easily export 3D flow path geometry.
Capabilities:
- Conduct 1D Meanline/2D Streamline Analysis to assess turbomachinery performance, velocity triangles, leakages, & more under any set of boundary conditions & fluids.
- Perform parametric studies and run performance maps
- Optimize geometry thanks to efficient design of experiment (DoE) methodologies.
- Create & modify 3D blades using interactive charts & geometric features.
- Apply reverse engineering techniques to extract profile geometry from 3D blade models & analyze existing turbomachinery within the software platform.
Turbomachinery 3D CFD and FEA
Benefits:
- Integrated within the turbomachinery design project to allow for fast and efficient design iterations.
- Unlimited cores & parallel processing.
- Export geometry and/or mesh for use in other CAE tools.
Capabilities:
- Run full 3D RANS CFD simulations for single blade rows, individual stages, or complete machines within the turbomachinery design software platform
- Automatically generate high-quality, turbomachinery-specific meshes for CFD and FEA using customizable tools
- Simplify simulation setup and results analysis with integrated pre- and post-processing tailored to turbomachinery workflows
- Use the software’s FEA capabilities to predict structural behavior of blades and attachments, including static, modal, and harmonic analysis
- Perform hot-to-cold and cold-to-hot deformation calculations directly within the design environment
- Analyze vibration characteristics using Campbell diagrams and other advanced structural tools built into the turbomachinery design software platform
Turbomachinery Design Applications
- Axial Turbines
- Axial Pumps
- Axial Compressors & Blowers
- Axial Fans
- Centrifugal Compressors
- Centrifugal Pumps
- Centrifugal Fans
- Integrally Geared Compressors
- Mixed Flow Compressors
- Mixed Flow Turbines
- Multi-Stage Centrifugal Compressors
- Multi-Stage Centrifugal Pumps
- Radial Turbine
- Turbochargers
- Turboexpanders
- Turbopumps
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