Case Study: MTU Friedrichshafen achieves faster, automated turbomachinery blade design and advanced optimization with CAESES

MTU Friedrichshafen - Customer Case Study

MTU Friedrichshafen, a leading turbomachinery manufacturer, faced the challenge of designing and optimizing complex compressor and turbine blades — including advanced features like endwall contouring — while integrating geometry, meshing and CFD/stress analysis into an automated workflow. To meet tight schedules and explore larger design spaces without repeated manual preprocessing, MTU adopted CAESES as their design platform.

CAESES provided robust, fully parametric blade models, parametric support geometries and automated links to meshing, CFD and stress solvers, enabling automated design studies and optimization. By using CAESES, MTU benefited from one-time preprocessing for all variants, efficient shape-optimization loops and integrated CFD/stress analysis — a workflow that case examples show can turn pilot projects into production tools within months and save months of manual engineering effort.

MTU Friedrichshafen

Nicolas Lachenmaier

Engineer for Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Analysis