CTAADS™

CAE Software for Blade Cooling

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.

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  • Feature Highlights

    • 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 

    • 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

    • Post processing

  • 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 

  • User-defined pressure loss and heat-transfer correlations (for internal cooling airflow model)

  • User-defined film effectiveness curves

  • 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

  • Post processing

CTAADS
  • 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 
  • 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
  • Post processing

Feature Highlights

  • 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 

  • 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

  • Post processing

Product Support

Customer-driven Improvement
AxCent has been continuously improved with annual releases since 1983. Nearly two hundred licenses shared by nearly four hundred users worldwide make AxCent the most mature and robust turbomachinery design software available today. Each year, the most requested features from Concepts NREC’s formal ballot process are incorporated into the new AxCent release.
Technical Support
Our support staff in North America, Europe, and the Far East includes experienced turbomachinery designers. Our software maintenance plan, Agile Products Support (APS), features traditional software upgrades, a help line, and regular design reviews conducted by our engineering staff, who also teaches our renowned turbomachinery courses.
Documentation
Documentation features make AxCent easy to use and include comprehensive HTML HELP plus step-by-step tutorials. User guides for designing radial and axial machines include Designing Axial Machines With AxCent and Designing Radial Machines With AxCent. Both guides are available in print or in searchable PDF format.

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CTAADS is CAE software with a systematic and rapid 3D modeling approach to turbine blade cooling methods for cooled axial turbine vanes and blades.

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