- Valuable manpower and design-time savings
- 2-3 times improvement in productivity per designer.
- Good designs with little prior design experience
- TURBOdesign-1 does not rely on empiricism and hence it is very easy to train new designers/users who can become productive very quickly.
- Performance Improvement
- 5-6 points improvements in efficiency over conventional design have been experienced in some applications. Typical improvements of the order of 2-3 points can be obtained over the best of state-of-art-design.
- Significant suction performance improvement in pumps and turbopump inducers.
- Innovative design beyond previous experience
- Application of TURBOdesign-1 has led to many important aerodynamic breakthroughs such as:
- Secondary flow suppression and jet/wake flow minimisation in centrifugal compressor impellers.
- Suppression of corner separation in vaned diffusers for pumps and centrifugal compressors.
- Reduction of endwall losses in axial turbine stators without any increase in loss at mid-passage.
- Control of separation and secondary flows in torque converter pump and turbine impellers.
- Control of rotating cavitation in turbopump inducers.
- Database of design know-how and technology transfer
- Optimum blade loading for a particular application is quite general and can be applied with ease to similar applications. The results of design optimization studies can be easily implemented in a design database that be transferred between different design teams in the organisation or to help train new designers.
- Systematic design suitable for series development
- Application of TURBOdesign-1 to series developments in pumps has shown that it can substantially reduce the development time of a new series.
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