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Webinars - Turbomachinery
Simulation for Advanced Modeling in the Turbomachinery Industry
Date: 23 July, 2009
Time: 15:00 BST (10 AM EDT, 16:00 CEST)
Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods have reached a significant level of maturity over the past decade, providing greater engineering insight to help designers and developers in a range of applications with every increasing geometry complexity, including: turbines, combustion, blade cooling and heat transfer, torque converters, compressors, fans and pumps, nozzles, cavities, ducts and nacelles.
Steady-state computations have improved to such an extent that they have become an everyday design tool. Unsteady flow computations do offer higher modeling fidelity, however require much longer compute times and therefore greater investment. Frequency-based methods create possibilities to realize the benefits of unsteady computations at a fraction of the cost. This webinar will explore the growth of simulation in the Turbomachinery industry and how these methods are continuing to develop towards solving cases with unsteady interaction and increasing geometric complexity.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Hall, Duke University
Dr. Hall will show how CFD, specifically STAR-CCM+ can be used to examine unsteady blade interaction. He will share with attendees how the Harmonic Balance Method may be used in three-dimensional, unsteady, viscous, non-equal pitch, multi-stage turbomachinery calculations at a fraction of the cost of the equivalent time-domain method. This is done while maintaining accuracy, keeping computational costs and memory requirements low.
Training Brief:
This events training brief will demonstrate a complete process from importing geometry, to post processing. The trainer will show attendees how once the process is set up, advanced meshing techniques can be used to provide greater benefits where detailed experimental data can be very difficult and expensive to obtain. The trainer will also demonstrate a fast hexahedral-topology meshing Wizard for axial and radial devices including tip-clearances.
