Automatic Axial Thrust Analysis Of Turbomachinery Designs

One or more non-transitory processor-readable media storing processor-executable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:

• dividing a cavity of a turbomachinery design into sub-cavities, the cavity describing geometry of a cross-sectional area between rotational and stationary components of the turbomachinery design or between rotational and rotational components of the turbomachinery design;
• computing magnitudes of horizontal components of forces exerted on rotational faces in each of the sub-cavities, the horizontal components being components along a rotational axis of the turbomachinery design;
• determining directions of the horizontal components of the forces based on how many faces a line parallel to the rotational axis intersects between a rotational face of interest and a side of the cavity, the rotational face of interest being one of the rotational faces;
• and
• computing a thrust force on a turbine of the turbomachinery design based on the magnitudes and the directions of the horizontal components of the forces.

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors, the one or more processors programmed to perform a method, the method comprising:
• dividing a cavity of a turbomachinery design into sub-cavities, the cavity describing geometry of a cross-sectional area between rotational and stationary components of the turbomachinery design or between rotational and rotational components of the turbomachinery design;
• computing magnitudes of horizontal components of forces exerted on rotational faces in each of the sub-cavities, the horizontal components being components along a rotational axis of the turbomachinery design;
• determining directions of the horizontal components of the forces based on how many faces a line parallel to the rotational axis intersects between a rotational face of interest and a side of the cavity, the rotational face of interest being one of the rotational faces;
• and
• computing a thrust force on a turbine of the turbomachinery design based on the magnitudes and the directions of the horizontal components of the forces.