Turbomachinery Training Course by ANSYS Fluent

Description

Turbomachinery Training Course Introduction

After passing this Turbomachinery Training Course, you are ready to claim yourself as a Turbomachinery CFD Simulation expert.

Turbomachinery describes machines that transfer energy between a rotor and a fluid. Turbomachines are machines that transfer energy to or extract it from continuously moving fluid streams. In other words, they generate power or head by changing the level of energy in a continuously flowing fluid by means of a rotating element; the rotating element is the rotor of the turbomachine. Turbines, compressors, and fans are all members of this family of machines. One of the most important aspects of turbomachines is how much energy they need or produce, as defined earlier. In this regard, the greatest tool to predict and calculate the received or given energy is considered to be CFD.

ANSYS Fluent is a powerful tool that can come to help. The implemented models in this software are capable of predicting even the smallest amounts of different forces that are exerted on a turbomachine and hence, are considered to be a significant tool for designing different types of turbomachines or investigating their interactions with their working fluid.

What do you learn in this Turbomachinery Training Course?

In this training course, you will thoroughly learn how to any type of turbomachinery and investigate the exerted or generated forces such as drag and lift or even calculate the generated torque for your rotary device within any domain. Different techniques and simulation models, including the Frame motion technique which itself contains two submodels of Single Reference Frame (SRF) and Multiple Reference Frame (MRF), and of course Mesh motion technique are explained in detail, along with step-by-step instructions on how to perform simulations in Fluent. You will first learn about each model’s basics and then learn tricks and tips on how to perform exact and accurate turbomachinery simulation.

This course is presented in a way that is as practical as possible so that the graduates can work well with this software to generate high-fidelity turbomachinery simulations after the end of the course.

Turbomachinery Training Course Syllabus

This course contains 5 video lessons and a final project as an exam to get the Turbomachinery Certification.

This course is divided into five main lessons and some sub-lessons. You strongly recommend that you do not skip any of the sections even if you feel you know the content.

Lesson 1

In this lesson, you will first see a general introduction to turbomachinery and an overview of available simulation techniques and models in ANSYS Fluent. This section contains the following subsections:

• Introduction and overview of the rotating frames
• Introduction to Frame motion technique
  • Single reference frame (SRF)
  • Multiple reference frame (MRF)
• Introduction to Mesh motion technique
• Sliding mesh motion
• Comparison between Frame motion and Mesh motion techniques

Lesson 2 

In this lesson, you will learn about the frame motion and Single Reference Frame (SRF) model by performing a simple project by investigating the flow field inside a mixer. This section contains the following subsections:

•        Overview of the needed setups and settings
•        Stationary wall or moving wall?!
•        Extracting graphical contours
•        Analyzing the data

Lesson 3

In this lesson, we will continue to talk about frame motion technique, but this time you will learn about Multiple Reference Frames (MRF) by performing a simple project by investigating the flow field inside a mixer. This section contains the following subsections:

•        Drawing geometry and generating mesh
•        Using the “Form part” option
•        Extracting graphical contours
•        Analyzing the data

Lesson 4

In this lesson, you will learn about the Mesh Motion model by performing a simple project by investigating the flow field inside a mixer. This section contains the following subsections:

•    Drawing geometry and generating mesh
•    What is an interface, and how to handle it
•    Tips on how to define the correct time step size
•    Extracting graphical data

Lesson 5

This is the last session, and in this lesson, you will learn how to simulate practical and real problems using MRF and Mesh motion model. In this session, you will learn to simulate the airflow around a moving horizontal wind axis turbine (HAWT) using MRF and do the same but this time for a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) using mesh motion, and how to create different reports such as lift, drag forces, and power (or torque) generated due to the rotation of turbine blades. Next, we will compare the presented models with each other so that you would obtain an in-depth understanding of turbomachinery simulations using ANSYS Fluent.