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TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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TURBOdesign Optima
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3D Blade Design
Our turbomachinery design toolkits include one on 3D blade design...
Meanline Design
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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Volute/Scroll Geometries
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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Multi-Objective Optimization
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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TURBOdesign Pumps & Fans
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
Our Pumps & Fans packages
TURBOdesign Compressors & Turbines
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
Our Compressors and Turbines packages...
TURBOdesign Optima
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
TURBOdesign Optima is our automatic optimization package
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TURBOdesign Pumps & Fans
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
Our Pumps & Fans packages
TURBOdesign Compressors & Turbines
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
Our Compressors and Turbines packages...
TURBOdesign Optima
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
TURBOdesign Optima is our automatic optimization package
3D Blade Design
Our turbomachinery design toolkits include one on 3D blade design...
Meanline Design
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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Multi-Objective Optimization
TURBOdesign Suite provides tools to designers to put them in direct control of aerodynamic design to streamline every step of the design process for turbomachinery components.
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Compressors
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Pumps and Hydraulic Turbines
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Academia
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Design Consultancy
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Research and Development
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Training
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Case Studies
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What is 3D Inverse Design?
Unlike traditional "directβ design methods that rely on trial and error between a given geometry and flow field predicted by CFD codes, ADT's 3D Inverse Design method starts by identifying what you want to do to the fluid flow in terms of 3D pressure field and mathematically derives the optimal geometry to achieve that outcome. This significantly reduces the time taken for each design.
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Parameterization of the blade geometry | As much as 30 to 100 parameters are required to describe a fully 3D blade. Reducing the number of parameters will highly limit the covered design space. |
A maximum of 8 design parameters are required for a fully 3D blade parameterization via the blade loading and as low as 4 parameters for the meridional shape.
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Blade Surface Smoothness |
The generated geometries can present non-smooth surfaces in spanwise direction requiring some checking or post-processing following the geometry generation process.
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The blade geometry is smooth.
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Specific Work of the Components |
There is no guarantee that the component specific work (Head / Pressure Ratio) at the correct mass flow rate is satisfied by the generated geometry. This needs to be imposed as a constraint in the optimization.
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Specific work at the required mass flow rate is an input to the code and is therefore automatically satisfied by every generated design.
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Main Flow Features of the Components |
To obtain performance parameters each geometry has to be analysed by CFD or other analysis code to extract basic data such as surface pressure, velocities or loss, efficiency etc.
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Within 10-15 seconds, the inverse design provides the geometry along with a fully 3D inviscid solution at the design point; basic requirements can be implemented directly in the optimizer without going into CFD.
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Simpler shape of the Objective function |
The relationship between the geometry and performance parameters such as efficiency, blockage, cavitation etc is highly non-linear.
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There is more direct relationship between blade loading/pressure distribution and performance parameters such as loss or cavitation. This makes shape of the objective function relating performance parameters to design parameters simpler and hence minima or maxima can be more quickly found.
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Generality of Optimized Results |
The result of the optimization is a blade geometry which is difficult to generalize for a different design condition or even size.
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Results of the optimization is the blade loading which has generality.
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Computational Cost |
High number of design parameters, no direct control over the design specifications and requirements to run CFD to extract even basic data makes this approach very expensive for a day-to-day design process.
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Lower number of design parameters, guaranteed satisfaction of design requirements and better correlation between design parameters and design objectives makes it a practical approach to generate design know-how and apply it to day-to-day design processes.
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Coupling turbomachinery automatic optimization with 3D inverse design shows significant benefits in generating an easy to store and transfer base of design know-how. Experienced designers can also use this approach on a daily basis to quickly visualize the trade-off between contrasting design objectives (ie. efficiency vs. noise in fans, efficiency vs. cavitation in pumps or efficiency vs. stresses in compressors) and position themselves in the range required by the customer or project specifications, considerably speeding up the turbomachinery design optimization process.
Companies across the world use TURBOdesign Suite for their turbomachinery design.