AxSTREAM for Turbomachinery Design

Complete turbomachinery design, from concept to final design

AxSTREAM has been developed by industry experts, for industry experts, providing reliable and accurate results that you can trust, all within the convenience of a single, integrated platform. Through its flexible, modular-based structure and unique generative design capabilities, users can easily and efficiently engineer cutting-edge solutions, saving both time and resources.

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 design challenges with ease.

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Turbines

Pumps

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Compressors

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Fans

Core 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 machine 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 machines within the software platform.

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Turbomachinery 3D CFD and FEA

Benefits:

Integrated within the turbomachinery 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:

Conduct 1D Meanline/2D Streamline Analysis to assess machine performance, velocity triangles, leakages (including inductions), & more under any set of boundary conditions & fluids.
Evaluate blade cooling
Perform parametric studies and run performance maps
Optimize geometry thanks to efficient DoE methodologies.
Create & modify 3D airfoils using interactive charts & geometric features.
Extract profile geometry from 3D blade models using reverse engineering to analyze existing machines within the software platform.