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5.2.0

CAESES Release 5.2.0​

The Turbomachinery Special

💥 New Features​

  • Circular Fillet: Method to find maximum fillet radius between two curves.
  • Blade Fillet: New fillet functionalities specifically designed for blade fillets. It can handle constant radius and variable radius values and offers a method to not cross specified boundary curves.
  • Blade Fillet: Feature to calculate maximum constant fillet radius between two blades.
  • Blade Thickness: Object for the turbo machine workflow, handling the creation of thickness distributions.
  • BRep Intersect and Trim: Now works with FPlane.
  • BReps: Added option to set transparency for individual faces.
  • Calculate Meridional Value: Function to calculate m or m’ from a meridional contour based on the t-position.
  • Dimensionality Reduction: New and better back-transformation.
  • Extract Mean Camber Surface: Function to extract the camber surface based on faces of pressure and suction side.
  • FAirfoilBlade: New object to conveniently create 3D blades based on 2D airfoil or hydrofoil definitions.
  • FBlade: Object for turbo machine workflow, handling and organizing the creation of the component blade.
  • FBladeCamber: Object for the turbo machine workflow, handling the creation of angle distributions, camberlines and cambersurfaces.
  • FBladedComponent: Object for turbo machine workflow, handling the creation of a component with blades.
  • FMeridionalContours: Object for the turbo machine workflow, handling the meridional contours of the blade
  • FTurboMachine: New workflow, to create turbo machines in a streamlined and fast way.
  • FUnbladedComponent: Object for turbo machine workflow, handling the creation of a component without blades.
  • FVector3: New command to calculate the wrap angle / theta angle of a vector / point in a cylindrical coordinate system: FVector3.getCylinderCoordsAngle().
  • FVector3: New command to calculate the radius of a vector / point in a cylindrical coordinate system: FVector3.getCylinderCoordsRadius().
  • Import BladeGen RTZT: Feature to import BladeGen RTZT files.
  • Import GeomTurbo: Feature to import GeomTurbo files.
  • Import Turbo Design: Feature to import Turbo Design files.
  • Inverse Cylinder Transformation: Added function to transform 3D profiles with inverse cylinder transformation into the 2D x,y-plane.
  • Meridional Area Distribution: Function to calculate the meridional area distribution, returned as a curve in the x,y-plane.
  • Propeller Calculator: Feature to calculate propeller properties based on specified operation conditions.
  • Sample: New Sample of an axial compressor stator blade based on “TU Berlin TurboLab Stator”.
  • Sample: New Sample of a centrifugal pump, designed with the turbo machine workflow.
  • Sample: Added sample for a radial turbine modeled with the turbo machine workflow, including scallops and variable radius fillets.
  • Transform to Meridional Plane: Simple function to transform a 3D camberline into the meridional plane.
  • Triangulation: Included a higher accuracy switch for triangulation (optional) for difficult cases.
  • Turbo Blade Analysis: Function to calculate beta and theta angle distributions from imported or modeled blades and cambersurfaces.
  • Turbo Section Analysis: Function to calculate beta and theta angles distribution from a camberline.
  • Types: Added Type FXml for parsing and writing XML files.
  • Types: Added Type FComplex for calculations involving complex numbers.

🔧 Changes​

  • FOffsetCurve: Allowed to use constant offsets and simple thickness distributions for offset on surface curves.
  • GUI: Added new workspace tab for propeller to split turbo machine and propeller design functions.
  • Sample: Updated sample for centrifugal compressor.
  • Sample: Updated axial fan to new turbo machine workflow.

🐛 Bug Fixes​

  • BRep Sources: Fixed handling of subsurfaces within surface groups.
  • Computations: Fixed bug where results could stay pending when connecting multiple computations.
  • Computations: Fixed race condition when running computations simultaneously in one design.
  • Design Engines: Fixed false positive dialog.
  • Design Engines: Do not check the influence of design variables on parameters for exploration algorithms.
  • Detached Feature Definitions: Fixed Documentation and feature definition duplication.
  • Editor: Fixed scopes in series editor.
  • Features: Fixed commands not available for shipped features within custom features.
  • License: Fixed issue with saving passwords with certain special characters.
  • Object Cast: Fixed object cast command for rare cases.
  • Template Types: Fixed memory leak.