TURBOdesign1 - Competitive Advantage

Significant manpower and design-time savings
2-3 times improvement in productivity per designer.
 

Good designs with little prior design experience
TURBOdesign1 does not rely on empiricism and hence it is very easy to
train new designers/users who can become productive very quickly.
 

Performance Improvement
• 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.
• Significant improvement in fan noise.
 

Innovative designs Beyond previous Experience
TURBOdesign1 allows designers to access larger part of design space with ease, thereby allowing breakthrough
designs. It has been used for
• Secondary flow suppression and jet/wake flow minimisation in radial 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 its 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.