Inlet Systems

• 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

• Design with virtual prototypes
  • Calculating motion, evaporation, mixing and thermal impact of spray
  • Simulate non-uniformities of inlet coolers or heaters

 Shaft and Gear Systems

• Ensuring rotational stability
• Avoiding interferences caused by rotation-induced strains

• Predict critical speeds, whirl, stability, base excitation and transient responses
• Seamless integration between analysis and optimization tools
  • Including Design for Six-Sigma

 Compressors

• Off-design performance
  • Avoiding surge over a range of power settings
  • Flow separation
• Flow-induced vibration

• Understand rotational and flow-induced vibration modes before building physical prototypes
• Simple extension of quasi-1D tools to full 3D physics for design refinement
  • Turbo design environment
  • Investigation of separation and tip gap characteristics
  • Installation effects

 Combustors

• 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

• 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

Turbines

• 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

• 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

Acoustic Enclosures

• Designing ventilation systems to avoid combustible mixtures caused by gas leaks
   

• Improve safety and reduce design costs
  • Test and improve ventilation designs under various leakage conditions before manufacturing