Knowledge Hub

This paper explores the challenge of creating fan designs to meet environmentally-friendly design targets, such as size, noise and efficiency.

Soler & Palau used 3D Inverse Design software, TURBOdesign1, to develop a new fan design that meets Europe's Ecodesign Directive requirements.

Daikin Industries saw big efficiency improvements in the design of their HVAC fan range by using TURBOdesign1 and 3D Inverse Design.

Two methods are used to parametrize the circulation distribution for compressor blades. Dawe's code is used to predict the viscous effect. An automatic optimization algorithm is developed to minimize the loss with respect to the design parameters.

Using TURBOdesign Suite to design the Arc'teryx evolutionary life-saving airbag rescue system

The client is a major manufacturer of large industrial pumps. They needed an accurate performance prediction of a double-suction volute pump with an estimated design flow rate of 6.00 cubic meters per second. 

The customer, one of the world’s largest pump manufacturers, asked ADT to design an inducer to fit in one of their products, a multi-stage centrifugal pump. A designer needs to consider the suction performance of the first stage to make sure that the pump can sustain low inlet pressure without suffering of cavitation and therefore pressure drops vibration and damage.

In this paper, an evaluation method for computational fluid dynamics simulations has been developed to quantify the loss generation based on entropy production in the flow field.

This paper presents the results of the multi-objective optimization strategy of mixed-flow pump design by means of three-dimensional inverse design approach, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Design of Experiments (DoE), response surface model (RSM) and Multi Objective Genetic Algorism (MOGA).