SIMTURBO © New, Innovative Software for Gas Turbine Engine Performance Design, Analysis and Simulation.

SIMTURBO© is an innovative, new software system which provides aerospace, marine and power system design engineers with a Windows-based, graphical user interface for design, analysis, development and simulation of gas turbine engine systems. This software has the benefits and advantages over existing simulation and performance design software tools by enabling the design engineers to rapidly synthesize, architect, re-parameterize, simulate and analyze new aero-thermodynamic systems with visual components.

SIMTURBO© allows easy and rapid engine system design with built-in detailed physics and aero-thermodynamic properties of the gas turbine components. This software significantly increases the ability of the designer / simulation engineer to utilize his/her creativity and innovative skills to architect and configure gas turbine engine systems from an almost infinite possibility of interconnected, move-able and easily re-parameterized components on a design palette.

SIMTURBO© contains a large set of tools and components ranging from modifiable engine components (i.e. inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines, nozzles, shafts, etc.), control components (i.e. PID, limiters, etc.), actuators, sensors, signals, sources, and many others. The simulation runs in real-time on a standard PC with updating time graphs and displays of transient parameters, component maps, flight and environmental conditions and thermodynamic cycle diagrams.

The complex gas turbine engine component equations are built in, implemented, and ready for system design. The user also has the capability to modify the components to match custom and new designs. The system results can then be viewed interactively during the simulation and after the simulation using Excel ® or other plotting tools of the user’s choice.

As an engineering educational tool, SIMTURBO© is excellent for teaching and research in the subjects of gas turbine engine systems, thermodynamics and control systems.