Turbomachinery Design Software and Engineering

Turbomachinery transfers energy between a rotating rotor and a flowing fluid. In a gas turbine, the compressor raises air pressure, the combustor adds heat through fuel combustion, and the turbine extracts energy from hot gases to drive the compressor and produce useful shaft power or thrust. Simulation models represent these components, their maps, operating points, and interactions to predict engine behavior.

SimTurbo models gas turbine systems and components including inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines, nozzles, shafts, recuperators, afterburners, and control elements. Users can configure turbojet and related engine architectures, investigate thermodynamic cycles, match components, and evaluate predicted thrust, power, temperatures, pressures, fuel consumption, and operating limits. The component-based format makes the modeled system visible and adjustable.

Yes. Steady-state performance and cycle analysis supports operating-point and off-design evaluations. Engineers can examine how component matching, ambient conditions, altitude, pressure ratio, and changing load or throttle settings affect performance. These studies are useful for comparing configurations, identifying efficiency tradeoffs, estimating thrust or power, and understanding the usable operating envelope before committing to hardware development.

Yes. Transient simulation is designed to evaluate dynamic behavior during engine starts, shutdowns, throttle changes, acceleration, deceleration, load changes, environmental variations, and fault conditions. It can represent actuator dynamics and sensor response while helping users assess stability, response speed, and control-system behavior. Real-time visualization makes it easier to observe how system states change throughout an event.

Yes. SimTurbo includes capabilities for PID controller development, fuel scheduling, gain scheduling, engine protection logic, actuator and sensor modeling, and FADEC-oriented control studies. Engineers can use closed-loop simulations to assess transient response, stability, limits, and fault behavior. This supports earlier control-law validation and virtual prototyping before migration toward hardware-in-the-loop or physical test environments.

Yes. SimTurbo offers academic simulation solutions for engineering courses, laboratories, propulsion and thermodynamics education, capstone projects, faculty research, and graduate or undergraduate study. University class and lab programs can use industry-focused gas turbine modeling in demonstrations and practical experiments. Custom and discounted licensing options are available for students, faculty, research organizations, and campus deployments.

SimTurbo supports exporting simulation data for post-processing in commonly used engineering workflows, including Excel, MATLAB/Simulink, and Python. Exported results can be used to document design studies, create custom plots, compare cases, perform additional calculations, or integrate model outputs with a broader analysis process. This flexibility helps teams retain their preferred reporting and data-analysis methods.

A full-featured 30-day free trial is available for the gas turbine control-system design offering. SimTurbo also provides a free 30-minute online demonstration for single-spool turbojet simulation, bookable through its calendar and delivered via Zoom. These options let prospective users review the graphical workflow, modeling approach, and relevant capabilities before selecting a license or consultation arrangement.