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"CFD analysis can be used as a cost-effective design tool for the optimization of pump flow performance and reduction of fluid borne noise."

"The solutions provided by CD-adapco’s meshing and solution technologies help provide significant benefit, both analytical and financial, to the analysis engineer and the wider company. By reducing the number of pieces of analysis software from three or more down to one ensures that only one mesh needs to be built per geometry, only one software package needs to be learnt and no errors can occur in mapping from one solution to another."

Turbomachinery Applications

Today, simulation tools are heavily used to investigate many aspects of turbomachinery design and performance. The use of these tools has aided companies in a greater understanding of the operating performance of their products, how to improve relability, reducing design cycle times and costs.

CD-adapco’s simulation solutions have a long history of handling the modeling aspects of the leading turbomachinery and power-generation companies like Lockheed Martin, NASA, GE, Liebherr, Rolls Royce, Voith, Siemens, Solar Turbines, Vestas and many others.

Customers have found CD-adapco products highly flexible for producing accurate simulation results, engineering insight, and improved productivity in a range of applications including: blade cooling and heat transfer, torque converters, turbochargers, turbines, compressors, fans and pumps, nozzles, cavities, ducts and nacelles. They include template meshers for axial and radial machines with single and multiple rows including tip-clearance gaps, highly automated tools for geometry repair and complex geometry meshing, and advanced solver methodologies for steady and transient analyses including a newly released Harmonic Balance method for periodic blade flows.

Turbomachinery Case Studies

CD-adapco recently releases Harmonic Balance (HB) method
This modeling approach allows unsteady rotor-stator blade interactions to be analysed in the frequency domain at a fraction of the computational cost of the equivalent time domain methodologies.

Improving turbine’s efficiency by the clocking technique
Real flow in turbines is incredibly complex, being viscous, unsteady and three-dimensional.Using Cd-adapco's fast transient solver and sliding mesh approach, we were able to investigate the time-dependent flow field including the rotor-stator interaction inside turbines.

Flutter at NASA Glenn
Turbomachinery flutter/ forced response is a physical phenomena strongly related to the unsteady aerodynamics of the jet engine which can result in a high cycle fatigue structural failure. To accurately simulate the physical phenomena, a fully coupled structural and fluid analysis is required to predict the blade behavior.