SimuTech has extensive capabilities and experience in the gas turbine with ANSYS FEA and CFD simualtion software for structural, thermal and fluid dynamics as well as fatigue analysis with fe-safe.
In addition to simulation software and services, SimuTech is a leader in blade frequency testing, moment weighing, and strain gage & telemetry to the gas turbine industry.
| Design Element |
Challenges |
Simulation Benefits |
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Inlet Systems
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- Fogging and cooling
- Delivering a uniform temperature to the compressor
- Ensure complete evaporation of spray
- Avoiding compressor fatigue caused by non-uniform air flow distribution
- Icing of air filters
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- Design with virtual prototypes
- Calculating motion, evaporation, mixing and thermal impact of spray
- Simulate non-uniformities of inlet coolers or heaters
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Shaft and Gear Systems
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- Ensuring rotational stability
- Avoiding interferences caused by rotation-induced strains
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- Predict critical speeds, whirl, stability, base excitation and transient responses
- Seamless integration between analysis and optimization tools
- Including Design for Six-Sigma
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Compressors
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- Off-design performance
- Avoiding surge over a range of power settings
- Flow separation
- Flow-induced vibration
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- Understand rotational and flow-induced vibration modes before building physical prototypes
- Simple extension of quasi-1 D tools to full 3D physics for design refinement
- Turbo design environment
- Investigation of separation and tip gap characteristics
- Installation effects
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Combustors
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- Maximizing thermal energy generation while minimizing NOx and CO emissions
- Designing liner and other components for proper thermal load
- Thermal stresses during “staging” or at partial loads
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- Make early design changes necessary to keep creep and thermal stresses within limits under all operational conditions
- Optimize combustion and reduce emission levels with virtual prototyping
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Turbines
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- Cooling blades sufficiently without sacrificing performance
- Flexibility in design for partial power loads
- Flow separation
- Rotation and flow-induced vibration
- Gas flow in secondary flow passages
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- Design for non-ideal fluid and structural effects of separation, heat transfer, and blade cooling
- Flexibility of connecting blade passage analysis with secondary flow passages and cooling effects in a user environment geared towards turbomachinery simulation
- Design for rotational stability
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Acoustic Enclosures
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- Designing ventilation systems to avoid combustible mixtures caused by gas leaks
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- Improve safety and reduce design costs
- Test and improve ventilation designs under various leakage conditions before manufacturing
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