Day 1 |
| Part I. Introduction: The Role of AxSTREAM in the Design of Turbomachinery |
- Introduction – role of AxSTREAM in turbomachinery design
- Workflow of Turbomachinery Flow path Design
- AxSTREAM Turbomachinery conceptual design suite - Features, Functions & Applications
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| Part II. AxSTREAM - Design & Analysis of an Axial Turbine |
Preliminary Design and Optimization
- Design space, design restraints, performance criteria
- Initial flow path design, definition of stages, charts, initial performance estimation, interactive editing
- Optimization of designed flow path
- Design validation in Streamline Solver
- AxPLAN – Design of Experiment module
- AxMAP – Off-design maps performances generator
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Analysis of existing Turbine flow path
- Starting of new AxSTREAM project, data input, loss models
- Minimal set of data to analyse existing flow path
- Calculation in Streamline Solver
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Day 2 |
| PART III. AxSTREAM – Profiling and blade design |
Turbine Blade Profiling
- Blade profile construction & control
- Surface distributions of pressure, velocity, etc
- Profile shapes optimizations
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Turbine 3D Blade Design and Stacking
- 3D Airfoil Design
- Blade stacking capabilities; Lean; Sweep
- 3D FEA Solver; 3D Flow Solver; Campbell Diagram
- Profile Export
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Import of existing profiles
- Existing profile import operations and features
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Day 3 |
| Part IV. AxSTREAM – Exercises |
- 12 MW Steam Turbine Design Exercise
- 10 MW Gas Turbine Design Exercise
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| Part V. AxSTREAM – Streamline Solver application for Axial Turbine |
- AxSTREAM Streamline solver functionality review
- Application of Streamline solver for Analysis and Design tasks
Examples of Streamline solver usage for advanced tasks:
- Analysis of existing flow path with leakage balance calculation
- 2D calculation in streamline solver
- Twist optimization with AxPLAN DoE Optimization engine
- Build flow path with prismatic standard blading
- Build flow path with twisted standard blading
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| PART VI. Summary & Re-cap |
- Advanced AxSTREAM features for XXI century turbomachinery design: counter-rotating turbine, compressor and fan; Mixed flow turbine and compressors
- Questions & Discussion
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Day 4 |
| Part VII. Advanced CAD Modeling for Blade Design – Part 1 |
- Basic assembly modeling
- Mating conditions
- Define parametric relationships
- Capturing design intent
- Create primitive and swept solids
- Solids information
- Introduction to sketcher
- Create and edit drawings
- Freeform modeling
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Day 5 |
| Part VII. Advanced CAD Modeling for Blade Design – Part 2 |
- Basic assembly modeling
- Mating conditions
- Define parametric relationships
- Capturing design intent
- Create primitive and swept solids
- Solids information
- Introduction to sketcher
- Create and edit drawings
- Freeform modeling
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