which CFD software is best for turbomachinery steady state performance analysis. Fluent, CFD , Numeca, Star CD etc.

regards sam

There are plenty of choices. Below they are ordered from the best option to ok option:

http://www.fluorem.com/uk/news.html (turb'design and turb'opti)

http://www.am-inc.com/

http://www.flowsol.co.uk/solutions/

http://www.esi-group.com/SimulationS...e/CFD_Fastran/ (has automated chimera)

http://www.sctetra.com/applications/...istep_pump.htm (affordable)

or J-FLO... http://www.newmerical.com/public/eng...lo&language=en

Ansys-CFX is the best software for turbomachinery simulations. esp. Fluid Structural Interaction...

CFX package has developed on density based approach. So its great to handle compressible Flow physcics. It has internally coupled with Ansys for FSI simulations.

I will suggest ANSYS-CFX esp. T/Mery applications.

what about fluent 6.2

no the ratio quality/price ansys and fluent is not very good.

Dear rip Dear are many papers availbe on net (in AIAA even) where poeple have used fluent for turbomachinery. even the MIT gas turbine lab (search words MIT gas turbine lab 2003 ) uses the fluent and they have found very good resutls. futhermore concepts NREC (US based turbomachinery specialist company) is using Fluent as there Navier stokes solver. what do you think regards sam

sammy, you're talking about academics here. They don't pay much for licenses. Users in the industry have to pay the regular price for features that are not relevant. Scooby

dear all can any body tell me wher the benifit of CFX lies as compared to fluent (price and solution accuracy for turbomacinery) sam