Introduction

This tutorial includes:

If this is the first tutorial you are working with, it is important to review the following topic before beginning:

BladeModeler requires an ANSYS license to use, although BladeGen will run in "demonstration" mode without the license (no saving or exporting is possible in this mode). Please contact your ANSYS representative to obtain a license for BladeModeler, if you do not already have one. To learn how to configure your licenses, see Configuring the BladeModeler License in the BladeModeler Help.

Unless you plan on running a session file for ANSYS CFX-Pre, you should copy the sample files used in this tutorial from the installation folder for your software (<CFXROOT>/examples/) to your working directory. This prevents you from overwriting source files provided with your installation. If you plan to use a session file, please refer to Playing a Session File.

If you want, you may skip the mesh creation sections and proceed directly to Defining the Aerodynamic Simulation in ANSYS CFX-Pre, using the provided Centrifugal_Compressor.gtm file.

Sample files referenced by this tutorial include: