Ansys TurboGrid
Turbomachinery Blade Meshing
Software

Ansys TurboGrid provides users with a fast method to produce a high-quality mesh for blade passages in rotating machinery.

Overview

TurboGrid Automates
Turbomachinery Blade
Meshing

Ansys TurboGrid is a high-quality turbomachinery meshing software. It features novel automated mesh generation capabilities in a simple-to-use, streamlined workspace. The tools offered can be applied to a wide variety of turbomachinery equipment and will help produce better simulation results.

Features

Quick Specs

TurboGrid is a mesh generation software that provides high-quality mesh for the most complex blade geometries. Getting a perfect mesh can be a time-consuming and frustrating exercise. This powerful software allows you to achieve optimal blade meshes and focus more time on simulation results.

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Axial, Radial and Mixed Flow

Splitter Vanes

Fillets

Meridional Splitter

Tip Clearances

Secondary Flow Paths

Automatic Topology Generation

Flexible Geometry Input

Rapid Mesh Generation

Flexible Automation

Boundary Layer Refinement

High-Quality Meshes

Capabilities

Ansys TurboGrid mesh generation software simplifies and delivers high-quality meshes

TurboGrid is the industry-leading automated mesh generation tool. Although it is automated, you’ll be able to customize your experience by defining detailed mesh settings, such as desired mesh size or blade boundary layer resolution. Furthermore, it contains a rapid mesh quality feedback and will help you fix regions that do not meet target quality. TurboGrid contains many tools that exhibit similar display properties to other blade design software such as the 2-D blade-to-blade views and meridional planes. It is a very intuitive workspace that allows for simple, yet powerful, mesh generation.

Capabilities

Structures Capabilities

Easily handle the complexity of varied design environments with a range of analytical tools that enable you to meet performance goals and ensure long-term reliability.

Fully Automatic Topology & Meshing

Ansys TurboGrid software includes novel technology that targets complete automation combined with an unprecedented level of mesh quality for even the most complex blade shapes. The desired final mesh size is defined (and, optionally, the blade boundary layer resolution), and all the other steps can be performed automatically to produce a mesh of extremely high quality. Grid angles are exceptionally good, mesh sizes transition smoothly, and high aspect-ratio elements are generated in the near-wall regions to resolve these regions efficiently and capture boundary layer flows accurately.

Tailored for Turbomachinery

Ansys TurboGrid software offers a user-friendly point-and-click environment with display functions familiar to blade designers, including 2-D blade-to-blade and meridional planes for viewing flow path and blade position. The view is updated automatically with each input to reflect the latest changes.

Automated Tip Clearance Meshing

For blades with clearances at the shroud, or even at the hub, Ansys TurboGrid provides a solution. Users can specify the amount of tip clearance in numerous ways: for example, as a percentage of span or at a specified distance from the hub or shroud. The grid in the tip can be either matching or nonmatching along the center of the blade thickness, ensuring optimal grid quality and accurate prediction of blade tip flow.

Rapid Mesh Quality Feedback

Ansys TurboGrid provides immediate feedback on mesh quality, based on criteria such as grid skew angles, mesh expansion rates and aspect ratios of mesh elements. Any mesh elements that do not meet target quality criteria are highlighted, guiding the user in adjusting user input and controls accordingly.

Secondary Flow Path Meshing

Ansys TurboGrid allows users to import CAD models and mesh secondary flow paths, such as bleeds, cavities, labyrinth seals, back disc cavities and ported shrouds.