ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes
ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes
TurboSystem is a set of software applications and software features that help you to perform turbomachinery analyses in ANSYS Workbench.
ANSYS TurboGrid is a meshing tool for turbomachinery blade rows. The release notes for ANSYS TurboGrid are given at “ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes > "TurboGrid Release Notes"”.
CFX-Pre, a CFD preprocesor, and CFD-Post, a CFD postprocessor, are part of the ANSYS CFX product. Both of these products have Turbomachinery-specific features. The release notes for CFX-Pre are given at “ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes > "CFX Release Notes"”. The release notes for CFD-Post are given at “ANSYS, Inc. Release Notes > "CFD-Post Release Notes"”.
Release notes for the remaining TurboSystem applications are provided in the following sections:
Note: | After reviewing these release notes, you are encouraged to see Usage Notes, which describes some known TurboSystem-related workflow issues and recommended practices for overcoming these issues. |
BladeGen is a geometry-creation tool for turbomachinery blade rows.
Vista AFD is no longer available from BladeGen, after having moved to Workbench. For details, see "Vista AFD".
For the Quasi-Orthogonal Area Graph, in some special cases involving sharp bends in the hub or shroud, the Quasi-Orthogonal Area with the blades can give incorrect results. This is the case regardless of the flow angle correction. The area curves without the blades are not affected by this defect.
ANSYS BladeEditor is a plugin for ANSYS DesignModeler for creating, importing, and editing blade geometry.
Camberline Thickness Mode
The workflow has been changed so that camberline/thickness definitions now appear exclusively as sub-features of the Blade/Splitter feature. For details, see Blades made using Camberline/Thickness sub-features in the TurboSystem User Guide. The splitter camberlines can now reference data from the main blade. For details, see Camberline/Thickness Definition Sub-features of Independent Splitters in the TurboSystem User Guide.
Auxiliary view
This view now shows meridional curvature for the hub and shroud. For details, see Meridional Curvature View in the TurboSystem User Guide.
Added Blade Clearance properties to the Blade feature. For details, see Blade Feature in the TurboSystem User Guide.
User-defined layers
You can create layers based on sketch curves. For details, see FlowPath Feature in the TurboSystem User Guide. Data layers in BladeGen models are converted to user-defined layers when loaded into BladeEditor.
BladeEditor has been made consistent with BladeGen in that, by default, both now read and write files that express angles in radians instead of degrees.
Vista CCD is a program for the preliminary design of centrifugal compressors. See "TurboSystem: Vista CCD" for details on using this new version of Vista CCD.
Vista CCD was developed by PCA Engineers Limited, Lincoln, England.
Vista CCD has been improved to work for a wider range of operating conditions.
Enhancements to Vista CCD:
Real gas capability was enhanced for "highly imperfect" gases.