SIW Axial Turbine Design and Performance Course

Course in Steam/Gas Turbine flow path design and optimization for independent and classroom studies

Course includes AxSTREAM Educational Version 3-months license.

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SoftInWay, Inc., 35 Corporate Dr., 4
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floor, Burlington, MA 01803. Tel: (781)685-4942

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SIW Axial Turbine Design and Performance Course

SIW Axial Turbine Design and Performance Course SoftInWay Inc. offers a downloadable course in steam/gas turbine flow path design and optimization for independent and classroom studies. The course focuses on the basics of steam/gas turbine design, analysis, and optimization. The cost of the course includes training manual and AxSTREAM Educational Version 3-months license.

Upon completion of the course, the trainee should be able to: Design flow path based on given overall requirements according to engine application (determine an appropriate geometry, number of stages (within the limitations imposed), and distribution of blade angles); Assess design interactions between aerodynamic, mechanical integrity and blade cooling requirements for any separate stage; Perform design optimization for both high pressure and low pressure turbine stages, encompassing 1D direct problem computation of multistage flow path and 2D direct problem computation of an individual stage; Search for optimal twist law of relatively long blades; Profile plain cascades with regard to aerodynamic criteria; Perform 3D blade design with different lean and sweep;

AxSTREAM Educational version limitations: Limited number of stations for 2D-calculations and blade design (<= 5); Limited number of profile points (<= 120); Limited number of projects per session (1 project); Limited number of stages in turbine (<= 5) for design and analysis; Ideal gas (k=1.4) usage only; Features such as ATLAS; blade geometry export; optimization #3 for stage; profile optimization by minimal loss are inaccessible.

Recommended environment to run AxSTREAM: 32-bit Intel or compatible 800MHz (or higher) processor, MS Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system, XGA graphics adapter (1024 x 768 resolution min) with OpenGL support.

Copyright 2000-2005. All rights reserved

SoftInWay, Inc., 35 Corporate Dr., 4
th

floor, Burlington, MA 01803. Tel: (781)685-4942

www.softinway.com

SIW Axial Turbine Design and Performance Course Course Contents TREAM Educational version limitations
1. Phases of turbine design 1.1 Turbine preliminary design 1.2 Design of a multistage turbine 1.3 Turbine optimization 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. Design and optimization of stage Stage design quality evaluation Stage optimization on pitch-wise surface Stage optimization on span-wise surface Turbine / stage meanline (1D) analysis Mean-line analysis formulations Loss calculation with regard to gaps influence Design of experiment study in 1D analysis

4. Turbine /stage axisymmetric (2D) analysis 4.1 Axisymmetric analysis formulations 4.2 Design of experiment study in 2D analysis 4.3 Blade twist and lean optimization 4.4 Reaction estimation 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 7. Turbine cascades profiling Transition from Macromodel mode to Profiling one High pressure cascades profiling Editing profile parameters in interactive mode Profile optimization on geometric and aerodynamic criterions HP turbine airfoils 3D profiling Specifics of Steam turbine flow path design HP and IP design Preliminary design with given number of stages Optimization on pitch-wise surface Optimization on span-wise surface Off-design points calculation

Specifics of Gas turbines design 7.1. Gas turbines design 7.2. Account cooling influence for gas turbines 7.3. Heat transfer coefficients computation

A key point of the course is acquaintances with completely interactive preliminary design and optimization procedure for HP and LP turbine conducted through AxSTREAM. Sample tasks of various types of turbine designs are included. The trainees will be introduced to design of experiment technique to solve the problems of design and optimization, and will get skills in planar cascades profiling and compound stacking.
Copyright 2000-2005. All rights reserved
SoftInWay, Inc., 35 Corporate Dr., 4
th

floor, Burlington, MA 01803. Tel: (781)685-4942

www.softinway.com

SIW Axial Turbine Design and Performance Course

How to order SIW course
SIW special offer - Axial Turbine Design and Performance Course including AxSTREAM Education Version 3-months license for $99. Hurry offer ends June 30, 2005. Check orders: Call: 1-781-685-4942 Please, indicate the STC as a product being ordered, an address, contact name, and phone number. Mail check to: SoftInWay Inc., 35 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803 Credit cards online orders: Please, visit www.softinway.com and use e-payments form. Purchase orders: All purchase orders must state "Net 30 days" for terms of agreement All orders must be prepaid with a check or credit card Fax purchase orders to: 781-685-4601 Mail purchase orders to: SoftInWay Inc, 35 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803 Prefer to place your order by telephone? Call: 781-685-4942 After your payment has been processed, your Course Manual and Ax STREAM Educational download instructions will be sent to you via email within 24 hours. If you have questions about the use of your personal information, please refer to the SIW Private Policy on www.SoftInWay.com.

Copyright 2000-2005. All rights reserved

SoftInWay, Inc., 35 Corporate Dr., 4
th

floor, Burlington, MA 01803. Tel: (781)685-4942

www.softinway.com