Turbomachinery-design software adds new features
The version 6.4 update of the TURBOdesign Suite provides new features and added functionality to enable designers to produce highly optimized designs in a more streamlined fashion. The update, according to the company, expands the software’s functionality by adding a flexible new geometry-parameterization capability (which allows the user to create arbitrary meridional geometries with arbitrary levels of control) and a new TURBOdesign integration module with Link-CCM+ (which enables the seamless integration of STAR-CCM+ into TURBOdesign Optima by leveraging the capability of TURBOdesign 3DLab to export high-quality CAD models. The software also includes TURBOdesign 3DLab, a new export of flow domains capability that lets users generate and partition flow domains and facilitate the preparation of the geometry for import into their desired CFD tool when running an optimization case with TURBOdesign Optima and 3DLab with either TURBOdesign Link-CCM+ or ANSYS Workbench.— Advanced Design Technology, London, U.K.