Case Study: Siemens achieves rapid, automated turbomachinery blade design and optimization with CAESES

CFD-Driven Shape Optimization of Turbine Blades and Endwall Contouring

Siemens needed to accelerate and expand the design space for complex turbomachinery blades—handling features like endwall contouring—while integrating CFD and stress analysis into an automated workflow to meet time-critical project deadlines. To address this, they evaluated and adopted the CAESES platform from FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS AG for its robust, fully parametric blade modelling, automated meshing, and tight integration with simulation tools.

CAESES provided parametric blade and support-geometry models, automated meshing, and a single loop for CFD and stress analysis, enabling high-throughput automated optimization. Siemens ran a pilot in May, solved a time-critical task by July and had CAESES fully in use as a design tool by October; the vendor’s solution let Siemens explore previously inaccessible design spaces, produce flexible and robust models, and save months of manual engineering work.

Siemens

Tilman auf Dem Kampe

Head of Aerodynamics Technology Development