G/Turbo®: Flow Modeling Tools for Turbomachinery
G/Turbo® is a set of tools for turbomachinery blade-row preprocessing that is built on Fluent's geometry and mesh generation software GAMBIT. G/Turbo's ability to automate preprocessing without placing restrictions on the geometries being modeled allows engineers to accurately simulate real-world designs quickly and effectively, saving you time and money.
With G/Turbo you have the unique advantage of unstructured meshing, so while idealized geometries can be created very rapidly, innovative design features may also be incorporated and their effects analyzed. The ability to automate preprocessing without placing restrictions on the geometries being modeled allows you to accurately simulate real-world designs in industrially acceptable time frames.
G/Turbo is supplied as an add-on to GAMBIT and supports many industry standard formats including Pro/ENGINEER™, ACIS, IGES, STEP and Parasolid.
Product Features
G/Turbo offers:
- User-friendly interface
- Flexible geometry import formats
- The ability to incorporate innovative design features, while retaining the automated creation of the basic geometry
- Full parametric journaling capability providing consistent meshing of alternate designs
- A complete suite of unstructured hexahedral, tetrahedral and hybrid meshing tools
- Fast meshes for axial, radial or mixed flow machines with minimal user inputs
- Full command language so that it can be fully automated for parametric studies
G/Turbo includes tools for:
- Blade and flowpath generation
- Topology decomposition
- Edge, face, boundary layer, and volume meshing
G/Turbo in Use
- G/Turbo has been designed to accommodate a wide range of turbomachinery applications, including:
- Aircraft propulsion
- Automotive pumps and fans
- Electronics cooling fans
- Gas turbines
- Hydraulic turbines
- Industrial and domestic fans/blowers (HVAC)
- Industrial pumps and compressors
- Marine propulsion
- Pharmaceutical pumps
- Sewage pumps
- Steam turbines
- Torque convertors
- Turbochargers
- Vacuum cleaners
Customer Testimonial
"Our engineers are quite impressed with G/Turbo's performance. The geometry is very easy to set up, even for complex turbomachinery, such as the one we tested, which had a highly-skewed blades as well as spliters. We found the automated meshing facilities quite helpful. And, the automatic creation of the profile saves a lot of time."