Applications
Design of High Performance Pump Stage
Hydraulic Design Optimisation of a Torque Converter
Design of a 3 Stage Axial LP Turbine for Aeroengine ApplicationsPublications
- Optimization of fan noise by coupling 3D invese design and automatic optimizer
- Development of a High Performance Centrifugal Compressor Using a 3D Inverse Design Technique
- Hydrodynamic Design of Pump Diffuser Using Inverse Design Method and CFD
- On the Coupling of Inverse Design and Optimization Techniques for the Multiobjective, Multipoint Design of Turbomachinery Blades
- Design of a Box Fan Rotor Using 3-D Inverse Design Method
TURBOdesign CFD - Pre-Processor
The process of generating a test case in TURBOdesign CFD consists of 5 main steps:
1. Input the Blade geometry
The pre-processor has been designed to import geometry from TURBOdesign1 automatically. Other CAD file formats will be implemented in the code shortly.
2. Grid Generation
The pre-processor allows for almost automatic mesh generation. However, the user also has flexibility to control the extend of stationary regions outside blade rows, tip clearance amount as well as detailed control of the grid clustering if required.
3. Specification
The specification window allows the user to specify the main flow parameters such as viscosity and density and in the case of pumps vapour pressure.
4. Boundary Conditions
This window allows the user to specify the inlet and exit boundary conditions either in terms of uniform quantities or in terms of profile boundaries that are read from a file.
5. Convergence Window
This window sets the convergence parameters. In 90% of cases the default setting provides convergence.
6. Convergence Monitor
The convergence window allows for the monitoring of usual RMS and maximum residual parameters as well as inlet velocity and exit velocity and flow angles.
