SimTurbo helps engineers, researchers, and educators model gas turbine operations with practical, real-time insight. Explore component-based tools for architecture development, steady-state and transient analysis, advanced cycle studies, and control-system validation. Built for aerospace, marine, power-generation, and academic applications, our simulation services make complex engine behaviour easier to visualize, test, refine, and communicate before hardware commitments are made.
Explore specialized gas turbine modelling tools for design, analysis, optimization, control validation, and engineering education.
Configure complete gas turbine architectures with graphical components for compressors, combustors, turbines, shafts, and nozzles. Evaluate concepts, component matching, and performance trade-offs before committing to detailed development.
Analyze thermodynamic cycles, operating points, fuel consumption, thrust or power, pressure ratios, and off-design behaviour. Use performance mapping to benchmark and optimize aircraft, industrial, and power-generation gas turbines.
Model dynamic engine behaviour through startup, shutdown, throttle changes, acceleration, load changes, environmental variation, and fault scenarios. Assess response, stability, actuator dynamics, and control performance in real time.
Develop and validate gas turbine controls, including PID logic, fuel scheduling, gain scheduling, sensors, actuators, protection functions, and FADEC concepts. Test closed-loop responses before advancing control algorithms.
Evaluate recuperated, regenerated, reheated, intercooled, and afterburning cycle configurations. Compare fuel efficiency, waste-heat recovery, emissions considerations, and thermal performance for advanced propulsion and energy systems.
Develop dual-spool turbojet models that capture high- and low-pressure spool interaction, compressor and turbine matching, transient performance, control strategies, and complete propulsion-system behaviour.
SimTurbo provides an engineer-friendly environment for examining how gas turbine systems perform across real operating conditions. Its component-based architecture lets users build, re-parameterize, and analyse models without treating the engine as a black box. Interactive diagrams and real-time results support faster design decisions, while exportable data can extend analysis in Excel, MATLAB/Simulink, or Python. From classroom learning to propulsion research, the platform supports clearer, more confident engineering evaluation.
Specialized simulation capabilities help engineering teams evaluate gas turbine systems with greater clarity and control.
Build models from understandable components rather than relying on opaque, black-box engine representations.
Visualize transient operation and throttle effects in real time on standard PC hardware.
J85-GE-21 validation results report accuracy within plus or minus two percent against NASA test data.
University pricing and classroom programs help students apply industry-grade simulation methods to engineering projects.
Experienced engineering leadership behind specialized gas turbine simulation technology.
President, CEO & Founder
Paul J. Hoffman is the President, CEO, and Founder of Controls Research LLC, the company behind SimTurbo. With a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from the University of Toledo, Paul brings a rare combination of technical depth and business acumen to the company. He has more than 45 years of experience spanning aerospace, automotive, and power systems engineering, giving him a comprehensive understanding of complex gas turbine engine design and simulation challenges. As founder, Paul has guided SimTurbo's development into a specialized, engineer-friendly platform used by aerospace, marine, and power-generation professionals as well as universities. His leadership reflects a deep commitment to advancing engineering education and real-world simulation accuracy, ensuring clients and students alike benefit from decades of hands-on industry expertise.
Vice President of Marketing & Sales
Chris Hoffman serves as Vice President of Marketing & Sales at Controls Research LLC, bringing more than 15 years of experience in the sales and marketing of technical products. Chris plays a key role in communicating the value of SimTurbo's advanced gas turbine simulation platform to aerospace, marine, power systems, and academic audiences across the United States. With a strong understanding of technical sales cycles and engineering-focused markets, Chris works closely with clients and educational institutions to ensure they find the right solutions for their design, analysis, and simulation needs. Chris is dedicated to building lasting relationships with customers, helping engineers and students alike understand how SimTurbo can improve productivity, precision, and outcomes in their gas turbine engineering projects.
Operations simulation services use digital models to examine how a gas turbine system behaves during defined operating conditions. They can cover steady-state performance, transient events, component interactions, control logic, fuel consumption, thrust or power prediction, and off-design operation. SimTurbo supports these studies through a graphical, component-based environment that helps users connect engineering assumptions to observable model results.
Talk with SimTurbo about your engine model, analysis goals, or licensing needs.
Reported comparison with NASA engine test data
Interactive modelling on standard PCs
Academic licensing and lab support
Share your engine configuration, analysis objectives, or academic requirements, and the SimTurbo team will help identify a suitable next step.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 779-390-4786. You can also send us a quick email at pjhoffman@simturbo.net.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 779-390-4786. You can also send us a quick email at pjhoffman@simturbo.net.