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Get industry leading accuracy with Ansys CFX. This tool quickly solves turbomachinery problems and provides engineers with more time to focus on their design.
Ansys CFX is the industry leading CFD software for turbomachinery applications. Shorten development time with streamlined workflows, advanced physics modeling capabilities and accurate results.
Known for its extreme robustness, CFX is the gold standard CFD software when it comes to turbomachinery applications. Both solver and models are wrapped in a modern, intuitive, and flexible GUI, with extensive capabilities for customization and automation using session files, scripting and a powerful expression language. Highly scalable high-performance computing will help speed up simulations including pumps, fans, compressors and turbines.
Get industry leading accuracy with Ansys CFX. This tool quickly solves turbomachinery problems and provides engineers with more time to focus on their design.
Ansys CFX lets engineers investigate thermal properties of new and complex turbine blade geometries.
“Other codes that were tried in this application often did not converge at this node spacing [0.001mm]. The researchers validated the CFD results against a test problem consisting of a planar jet impinging on a flat plate and achieved very good correlation.”
New manufacturing methods have opened the door to more effective turbine cooling channel geometries. The new geometries will lead to better performance and efficiency but are more complex. To achieve highly accurate results, a team of Purdue engineers turned to Ansys CFX.
The engineers executed key computations with little turnaround time. With the extra time, they could perform more in-depth comparisons and run further simulations to fully optimize their product. Ansys CFX gave them the tools to land on a multi-mesh “weave” design. The new turbine design runs with much cooler blades and has been implemented at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
JANUARY 2025
In 2025 R1, Ansys CFX software updates include a new parallel approach for Harmonic Analysis (HA), new adaptive and dynamic steam tables for steam turbine analysis, and CFX’s virtual injection hole model can better replicate the fully resolved model for blade film cooling applications.
A new parallel approach for Harmonic Analysis (HA) partitions the simulation by time planes, providing a speed up approximately equal to the number of time planes. For example, an HA simulation with nine-time planes is approximately 9x faster.
The new adaptive and dynamic steam tables optimize accuracy and computational time for steam turbine analysis, dynamically adjusting the temperature and pressure table range as the solution evolves.
CFX’s virtual injection hole model can better replicate the fully resolved model for blade film cooling applications by imposing a choke condition to restrict the local Mach number.
Ansys CFX CAPABILITIES
Ansys CFX’s advanced physics modeling capabilities help engineers solve the most complex challenges in turbomachinery applications. This powerful software has been extensively validated and is renowned for its robustness and accuracy. Streamlined turbo setups and blade design tool integration ensures that you have more time to spend optimizing your design. Whether it’s used for blade design optimization or advanced material modeling, CFX is the reliable tool you can use to save both time and money.
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