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Enhancements for PCA's axial compressor throughflow code
SC90C is PCA's streamline curvature throughflow code for axial compressor design and transonic axial fan design and analysis.
Developed by PCA since 1990, the code already contained a large number of features vital to axial compressor design. They include: a range of verified loss and deviation models, split-flow fan capability, transonic blade inlet conditions, and spanwise mixing.
Recently added, in the earlier 2006 release, v6.3, were the following:
- application to high pressure ratio multistage compressors with as many as 15 stages
- an improved design mode
- blade force calculation
- an entirely new environment, based in Excel, in which to run the code and to post-process results
- additional loss model: Miller and Wright
- improved handling of Miller and Wright endwall losses
- facility to customise radial loss variation
- improved treatment of split-flow fans
- improved treatment of near-choke flow