At SoftInWay, we don’t just build software—we build solutions that evolve with you. That’s why we’re thrilled to unveil the latest update to AxSTREAM, our all-in-one platform for turbomachinery and thermal-fluid design, analysis, and optimization. This isn’t just a routine upgrade; it’s a response to the challenges and aspirations of our clients and partners. Every new version is crafted to help you stay ahead in an ever-changing landscape, offering innovative features designed to simplify complex problems and accelerate your success in turbomachinery design.
With enhanced simulation tools, AxSTREAM empowers engineers to push the boundaries of performance. Whether you’re designing power plants, centrifugal compressors, turbines, or industrial fans, these updates help you solve tough problems efficiently.
Let’s dive deeper into a few of the 100-plus new features, and how they can help you accelerate your design process, enhance your workflow, and stay ahead of the competition.
AxSTREAM Flow Path Updates: Enhancing Design Precision and Analysis for Turbomachinery Engineers
Exhaust Duct in the Axial Turbine
The latest updates to AxSTREAM Flow Path are a game-changer for turbomachinery design, offering engineers cutting-edge tools to dramatically enhance accuracy. With these advancements, engineers can now optimize turbine and exhaust duct systems more effectively, helping improve performance, efficiency, and overall system reliability. These updates empower engineers to push the boundaries of design, ensuring that every aspect of the turbomachinery system is finely tuned for maximum impact. Key updates include:
- Exhaust Duct (Duct AX) Component: Enables accurate modeling of exhaust ducts with seamless transitions, useful for turbomachinery engineers and designers to improve turbine flow behavior accuracy.
- Enhanced Contour Editing: Allows precise adjustments to exhaust duct geometry, beneficial for engineers needing fine-tuned control over turbine design to meet specific requirements.
- Seamless Export to CFD: Supports export of flow paths to .step and .igs formats, ideal for CFD analysts to integrate turbine and exhaust duct simulations for enhanced accuracy.
- Spinner Extension Coefficient (brr): New parameter to control rotor-exhaust duct separation, providing CFD analysts and engineers more control for improved simulation accuracy.
- Exhaust Conical Diffuser Loss Model: Evaluates turbine performance with exhaust ducts transitioning between cross-sections, helping engineers assess performance impacts and optimize efficiency.
- CFD-Validated Model: Developed and validated with CFD data, ensuring reliable performance predictions for engineers seeking confidence in turbine and exhaust duct systems
AxSTREAM System Simulation Updates: Accurate and Efficient Simulations for a Confident Design Process
New AxSTREAM System Simulation Transformation Library Updates
The latest updates to AxSTREAM System Simulation introduce the highly anticipated Transformation Library, designed to elevate thermodynamic process modeling to new heights. Responding to user demand, this comprehensive suite of components enables engineers to model, simulate, and analyze a broad range of thermodynamic processes with exceptional accuracy. These updates are beneficial when designing clean tech and energy tech applications, where optimizing energy efficiency is a key priority. By providing a deeper understanding of thermodynamic processes, the Transformation Library helps engineers develop more efficient and sustainable energy systems. Whether for academic research, industrial applications, or process optimization, this tool provides the critical insights needed to drive advancements in clean energy solutions. Key updates include:
- Adiabatic Transformation: Ideal for modeling processes without heat exchange, this component is perfect for insulating systems or scenarios involving rapid compression and expansion.
- Isenthalpic and Isentropic Transformations: These components simulate open systems undergoing transformations that maintain constant enthalpy (isenthalpic) or follow a reversible, adiabatic process (isentropic).
- Isobaric and Isochoric Transformations: These tools enable simulations of systems in equilibrium with an external pressure source (isobaric) or those maintaining constant volume, such as combustion or sealed systems (isochoric).
- Isothermal and Polytropic Transformations: These features model slow, heat-exchange-dominated processes (isothermal) or polytropic processes, such as ideal gas expansions in thermal equilibrium.
With these powerful updates, engineers and researchers can now tackle a wide variety of applications—from energy systems like Rankine and Brayton cycles to refrigeration, heat pumps, and advanced optimization solutions. The Transformation Library ensures accurate simulations for both research and industrial applications, empowering engineers to design and optimize thermodynamic systems with confidence.
AxSTREAM RotorDynamics Updates: Flexibility and Precision in Rotor-Bearing System Simulation
The “Excitation” sub-tab settings for a single torque function in Torsional Harmonic analysis result
The latest updates to AxSTREAM RotorDynamics bring enhanced flexibility and precision to rotor system simulations, enabling engineers to gain deeper insights into rotor behavior. One of the standout features is the ability to perform torsional harmonic analysis with multiple excitation frequencies. Previously, torsional harmonic analysis was limited to a single excitation frequency, but now users can analyze the effects of multiple excitation frequencies simultaneously. This upgrade provides a more realistic representation of how different forces interact within the rotor system, leading to more accurate predictions and improved rotor performance. Key updates include:
- Multiple Excitation Frequencies: The new “Excitations” sub-tab allows users to input and analyze multiple excitation frequencies, offering a comprehensive understanding of how varying torques influence rotor dynamics.
- Expanded Analysis: Users can now observe results across various parameters—such as torque response, torsional stress, angular deflection, and angular velocity—helping engineers identify potential issues and optimize rotor performance under real-world operating conditions.
With these powerful enhancements, AxSTREAM RotorDynamics offers a new level of precision and convenience, from independent control over rotor station discretization to automatic NDiv calculations. These updates equip engineers with the tools to efficiently design, analyze, and optimize rotor systems, ensuring AxSTREAM remains the go-to solution for advanced rotor dynamics simulations across various engineering applications.
These latest AxSTREAM updates bring a wealth of new features that help engineers solve the most complex challenges in turbomachinery design, analysis, and optimization. From enhanced flow path modeling and system simulations to more precise rotor dynamics, AxSTREAM continues to evolve, offering greater efficiency for you and your design process.
Ready to take your turbomachinery designs to the next level? Stay ahead of the competition by leveraging the latest features in AxSTREAM v.3.10.7. Request a demo to learn how these updates can streamline your design process, improve performance, and drive efficiency.
