CTAADS™
The Cooled Turbine Airfoil Agile Design System (CTAADS) provides a systematic and rapid 3D modeling approach to cooling-system design for cooled axial turbine vanes and blades. The system includes many special features that can significantly reduce the total time and cost to generate airfoil cooling-passage geometry and perform a complete 3D thermal analysis.
- Integrated suite of independent software modules
- Efficient data transfer and sharing
- Complete 3D thermal analysis including film holes, impingement holes, trailing edge exit slots, pedestals, and thermal barrier coating
- 3D airfoil model represented with geometric finite elements
- Fast finite difference thermal solver TAS™ by ANSYS Corporation
- User-defined pressure loss and heat-transfer correlations (for internal cooling airflow model)
- User-defined film effectiveness curves
Basic system components
- Airfoil core and 3D solid-model generation
- Automatic 3D mesh generation
- Internal cooling airflow model
- External airfoil boundary conditions
- Film effectiveness
- Automatic boundary conditions mapping
- Steady-state thermal analysis
- Postprocessing
CTAADS is a trademark of Concepts ETI, Inc.
TAS is a trademark of ANSYS, Inc.
ANSYS is a registered trademark of ANSYS, Inc.
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CTAADS system schematic
3D airfoil solid models - turbine blade
Thermal analysis system (TAS)
TAS 3D Mesh including boundary nodes (cross section)
Example GUI dialog - airfoil wall thickness
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