Our core tools
Rotating Equipment Design
AxSTREAM for Turbomachinery Design has been developed by industry experts, for industry experts, providing reliable and accurate results that you can trust, all within the convenience of a single, integrated platform.
Through its flexible, modular-based structure and unique generative design capabilities, users can easily and efficiently engineer cutting-edge solutions, saving both time and resources.
Regardless of the machine type (compressor, pump, turbine, fan, blower), configuration (axial, radial, mixed flow, diagonal), or working fluid (steam, gas, sCO2, hydrogen, etc.), AxSTREAM helps tackle the toughest design challenges with ease.
Core Capabilities & Benefits
Generative Preliminary Design
Benefits:
- Stronger preliminary design candidates and early architecture decisions (axial vs. radial, how many stages, etc).
- Less resources are required to optimize your geometry.
- Sits upstream of your current preliminary design capabilities.
Capabilities:
- Perform 1D clean sheet design or redesign from existing equipment regardless of configuration & turbomachine type (blowers/compressors, expanders, fans, pumps, & turbines).
- Generate thousands of geometries within seconds & compare at design & off-design conditions, including surge margin.
- Input parameters (boundary conditions, geometric values, constraints) provided as ranges or fixed values for comprehensive design space exploration
- Analyse design space to narrow in on the best combination of inputs & filter unwanted solutions.
Key capabilities
1D-3D Turbomachinery Design & Analysis
Benefits:
- Predict performance, choke (compressors) & cavitation (pumps) early in the design process.
- Compute performance maps in seconds using fast 1D/2D solver.
- Integrated modular-based interface enables fast & robust design process.
- Easily export 3D flow path geometry.
Capabilities:
- Conduct 1D Meanline/2D Streamline Analysis to assess machine performance, velocity triangles, leakages, & more under any set of boundary conditions & fluids.
- Perform parametric studies and run performance maps
- Optimise geometry thanks to the efficient design of experiment (DoE) methodologies.
- Create & modify 3D blades using interactive charts & geometric features.
- Apply reverse engineering techniques to extract profile geometry from 3D blade models & analyse existing machines within the software platform.
Turbomachinery 3D CFD and FEA
Benefits:
- Integrated within the turbomachinery project to allow for fast and efficient design iterations.
- Unlimited cores & parallel processing.
- Export geometry and/or mesh for use in other CAE tools.
Capabilities:
- Conduct 1D Meanline/2D Streamline Analysis to assess machine performance, velocity triangles, leakages (including inductions), & more under any set of boundary conditions & fluids.
- Evaluate blade cooling
- Perform parametric studies and run performance maps
- Optimise geometry thanks to efficient DoE methodologies.
- Create & modify 3D airfoils using interactive charts & geometric features.
- Extract profile geometry from 3D blade models using reverse engineering to analyze existing machines within the software platform.
AxSTREAM Rotor Dynamics
AxSTREAM RotorDynamics is a state-of-the-art software tool developed to ensure the reliability and efficiency of rotating machinery. This powerful software program offers comprehensive analysis and modelling capabilities that address the complex behaviours of rotors and bearings.
By integrating advanced simulation techniques, AxSTREAM RotorDynamics provides engineers with the insights needed to optimise performance and prevent mechanical failures.
Key capabilities:
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Comprehensive Rotor Dynamics Analysis
Undamped critical speeds, critical speed map, mode shapes, damped unbalance response, and stability, harmonic, transient and Waterfall diagram analyses. -
Advanced Bearing Modelling
Model various bearing types, including sliding, rolling, gas foil, magnetic, journal, thrust, fluid, gas, hydrostatic, and hydrodynamic bearings. -
Dynamic Response Prediction
Predict rotor behavior under various operating conditions to prevent resonances and instabilities. -
Flexible Configuration Options
Customise rotor and bearing designs to meet specific application requirements and constraints. -
Linear and Nonlinear Analysis
Conduct both linear and nonlinear analyses to capture a wide range of rotor behaviors. -
Complex Support Structures & Casing Components
Model multi-shaft and multi-branch rotor systems with intricate support structures with ease. -
Data Export and Reporting
Export analysis results in various formats for further analysis, documentation, and reporting, facilitating seamless integration with other engineering tools and processes.
Benefits
- Identify critical speeds and potential instability in the conceptual design stages, allowing for timely design modifications to prevent resonance and instability
- Reduce design iterations and development costs by catching problems early, minimising the need for expensive redesigns and extensive testing
- Generate critical data for making informed design choices, facilitating a holistic design approach and better integration with other elements of the design process (aerodynamics, thermodynamics, etc.)
- Reduce maintenance costs and downtime through proactive analysis and design improvements
- Benefit from an intuitive interface simplifying complex simulations and accelerating the design process.
- Ensure designs meet and exceed industry standards such as API for reliability and safety.
- Perform rotor dynamics analysis immediately after completing aero/hydrodynamic activities by exporting/importing the flow path into the rotor dynamics module, eliminating the need for CAD processes
Working with DOCAN
Working with DOCAN, you have direct access to a large network of experienced professionals and industry-leading software to drive your project forward. If you want to know how we can help, get in touch with us.