Multi-block meshes for turbomachinery applications

Hexahedral mesh for a turbocharger compressor.

Enhancing Turbocharger Efficiency with CFD and Automated Meshing Tools

Optimizing compressor design is crucial for turbocharger efficiency. CFD-driven analysis refines aerodynamics, while structured meshing enhances accuracy. GridPro automates high-quality meshing for impellers and volutes, accelerating design iterations. By leveraging CFD and advanced meshing, engineers can achieve superior compressor performance, improving fuel economy, power output, and regulatory compliance in modern engines.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyMarch 7, 2025March 10, 2025Leave a comment

Structured hexahedral mesh used to accurately capture leakage gaps inside a screw compressor.

Turbomachinery

Accurate Capturing of Leakage Gaps in Screw Compressors with Hex Grids

Leakage flows stand out as the primary factor leading to decreased efficiency within screw compressors. Precisely capturing these leakage flows using enhanced grids plays a crucial role in achieving precise CFD predictions of their behavior and their consequential impact on the overall performance of the screw compressor.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyNovember 15, 2024November 27, 2025Leave a comment

Automated structured multiblock mesh generated for a gerotor pump using GridPro’s hexahedral meshing workflow.

Grid generation, Mesh Automation, Turbomachinery

Automated Hexahedral Meshing of Gerotor Pumps

Automated hexahedral mesher empowers engineers to effortlessly scrutinize the flow behaviour, vividly understand the change in flow with the change in clearance gap, and explicitly bring out the differences in the gerotor design variant’s performances.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyOctober 30, 2024November 27, 2025Leave a comment

Three-dimensional streamlines visualizing the flow around a turbine blade with winglet tips, showing how the winglet alters tip leakage, redirects vortical structures, and shapes the overall aerodynamic flow pattern.

Turbomachinery

Cooling the Hot Turbine Blade with Winglet Tips

Turbine blades with winglet tips increase heat transfer and reduce tip losses. To know more about winglet tips, visit GridPro blog.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyJanuary 10, 2024November 20, 2025Leave a comment

Structured multiblock mesh generated for a turbine blade with squealer tips, showing refined grid resolution along the squealer rim and cavity region to capture tip leakage flow and associated vortical structures accurately.

Turbomachinery

Innovative Turbine Blade Tips to Reduce Tip Leakage Flow

Revolutionary turbine blade tip designs are critical for minimizing tip leakage losses in gas turbines. Several innovative designs, such as flat tips, squealer tips, tips with winglets and honeycomb cavities, have shown the potential to mitigate this problem.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyJanuary 10, 2024November 20, 20251 Comment

Turbomachinery

Honeycomb Tips to Reduce Turbine blade Leakage Flows

Honeycomb tips offer a solution for mitigating turbine tip leakage flows. The tips are highly effective outperforming conventional flat tips.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyJanuary 10, 2024November 20, 2025Leave a comment

Turbomachinery

Effective Control of Turbine Blade Tip Vortices Using Squealer Tips

Squealer tips provide a solution to various challenges in the tip gap region, such as reducing tip leakage flow and protecting blade tips from high-temperature gases. Further, they also improve design clearance through their sealing properties.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyJanuary 10, 2024January 10, 2024Leave a comment

Turbomachinery

Challenges in Meshing Scroll Compressors

Scroll compressors with deforming fluid space, narrow clearances pose immense meshing challenges. Read to know about scroll meshing issues.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyMarch 25, 2022March 26, 2022Leave a comment

Grid generation, Mesh Automation, Turbomachinery

Automation of Hexahedral Meshing for Scroll Compressors

Developing a three-dimensional mesh for a scroll compressor with the challenges of the complicated moving geometries of the orbiting scroll and the deforming valves not only requires an automated meshing strategy but also a high quality structured mesh that produces higher accuracy of CFD results in a shorter turnaround time.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyMarch 25, 2022January 29, 2025Leave a comment

Turbomachinery

Turbopumps – A Unique Rotating Machine

A large percent of rocket failures are due to cavitation instabilities in turbopumps. Read to know the challenges in designing turbopumps.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyDecember 10, 2021October 28, 2024Leave a comment