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Co-simulation Software to Ensure Efficient, High-Quality Aero Engine Turbine Blade Design
An aircraft engine’s turbine blades must be able to operate safely and durably in harsh environments that create significant structural and thermal load changes. Temperature, stress and vibration all combine to impact a blade’s lifespan and performance, and the shape of the turbine blade must incorporate optimal aerodynamic and heat transfer characteristics. Manufacturers therefore need to test how it will perform in a full range of conditions.
A build and test approach to designing aero engine turbine blades is expensive and time-consuming, but the complexity of the physics involved in blade development makes simulation challenging without the right software tools.
Hexagon’s simulation software gives aero engine turbine blade engineers the ability to perform the multidisciplinary analysis and modelling that is crucial to understanding the complex physics behind high-quality turbine blade design. In addition to performing linear and non-linear analysis for static, dynamic and thermal situations, engineers can draw on features including topological optimisation capabilities and fatigue analysis.
A build and test approach to designing aero engine turbine blades is expensive and time-consuming, but the complexity of the physics involved in blade development makes simulation challenging without the right software tools.
Hexagon’s simulation software gives aero engine turbine blade engineers the ability to perform the multidisciplinary analysis and modelling that is crucial to understanding the complex physics behind high-quality turbine blade design. In addition to performing linear and non-linear analysis for static, dynamic and thermal situations, engineers can draw on features including topological optimisation capabilities and fatigue analysis.
Our Solutions
Explore Hexagon solutions for aero engine blade thermo-structural design
Multidisciplinary Structural Analysis
MSC Nastran simulation software gives aerospace engineers a single, high-performance tool for the multidisciplinary structural analysis which is key to blade design.
Virtual Product Development
The MSC Apex platform provides a direct modelling and meshing solution that enables engineers to design and validate products faster.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
scFLOW is a powerful simulation software for computational fluid dynamics and includes a smart modelling solution for simulating blade performance.
Case Studies
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