Reverse Engineering
What is Reverse Engineering?
• Many turbomachinery companies
have collected a large number of
legacy designs for which 3D CAD
data are available
• Those CAD models are often non-
parametrized or parametrized with
limited flexibility for redesign
• Turbomachinery designs should be
accessible for convenient and fast
geometry modifications to improve
performance and efficiency
• The conversion into a turbo-
machinery specific parametric
modeling is required
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What is Reverse Engineering?
• CFturbo’s new reverse engineering tool converts any bladed
turbomachinery CAD model into a fully parametric CFturbo file for
further design exploration in a very short time
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Why do Reverse Engineering?
• If legacy designs are available but no parametric CAD drawing, CFturbo
modeling helps to rebuild 3D-CAD files of Turbomachinery components
• CFturbo reverse engineering will be effective for comparing data and
geometry models with other parts on the market
• In the after-market business, reverse engineered models are key for re-
design and production of turbomachinery parts and components
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How does Reverse Engineering work?
Step1. Import of the 3D CAD model
Any number of files in STEP, IGES, Parasolid or BREP format can be
selected.
Reverse engineering is currently possible for radial, mixed-flow and
axial impellers, as well as vaned stators of pumps, blowers, fans,
compressors, hydro turbines and gas turbines.
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How does Reverse Engineering work?
Step 2. Detect the meridional contour and blades
By selecting the corresponding surfaces in the original 3D model,
the meridional contours, and the surfaces of the main blades can be
defined, if required also those of the splitter blade.
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How does Reverse Engineering work?
Step.3 Continue work in CFturbo design process
Subsequently, all geometry parameters are available in CFturbo, for
manual variations or optimizations, allowing the full potential
for product improvements to be unlocked.
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CFturbo Design Methodology
Adjust, modify, re-design, export ... all fully parametric
BEP
Fundamental equations
DP BEP Bernoulli-, Euler equation,
Mass-, Momentum-, Energy
conservation, …
Q BEP
Get 3D-CAD-model
Define operating point Best Fluid and solid
Efficiency Point (BEP) Empirical correlations domains
Volume flow rate, head or Using publicly available
CAD / CFD / FEM -
total pressure difference, knowledge, or own
export formats
rotational speed, fluid proprietary data
define batch-mode
properties, inlet conditions
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Option: CFturbo Interfaces to 3D-CFD/FEA
Turbomachinery Design Meshing Simulation
Ansys Mesh, Mosaic Ansys CFX, Fluent
Ansys, Inc.
TurboGrid Ansys Mechanical
Cadence Pointwise
FINE/Turbo
Design Systems Inc. AutoGrid, HEXPRESS
CFD Support HELYX,
Snappy HexMesh
engys, Open CFD OpenFOAM, TCFD
CFturbo Simerics, Inc. Simerics MP / MP+
SIEMENS PLM STAR CCM+, Simcenter
Dassault 3DS SOLIDWORKS Flow, Abaqus
Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk Flow Simulation
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Option: CFturbo for Design Exploration and Optimization
Bi-directional Integration, example Ansys Workbench
CFturbo can be combined with other CFD, FEA, optimization code
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Optimization Workflow: CFturbo - Ansys CFX - optiSLang
Turbomachinery
Optimization
Design
Simulation
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CFturbo with CFturbo SMP (Simerics MP)
SMP
Conceptual Meshing +
Design Simulation
➢ Define mesh parameters and solver
settings in CFturbo export window
➢ Immediate start of simulation for the
CFturbo design point
➢ Python scripts for batch runs are
available to get performance curves
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Optimization Workflow: CFturbo - Simerics MP - DAKOTA
Simerics MP
Meshing +
Simulation
Conceptual
Product
Design
CAD + Prototyping
+ Testing
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CFturbo with StarCCM+/Design Manager
StarCCM+
Design Manager
Conceptual Meshing + Simulation,
Turbomachinery Design Design Exploration
.cft-batch files (.xml)
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Optimization Workflow: CFturbo - StarCCM - HEEDS
Process Automation Design Exploration
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Option: direct export of 3D printed models
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