PyTurboWizard

OSS disclaimer

PyTurboWizard depends on OSS (Open Source Software), which is subject to its own terms and conditions and might contain vulnerabilities. Ansys is not responsible for such third-party software.

You should consult your company’s software security department before installing any software on company hardware.

PyTurboWizard is licensed under the MIT License.

Overview

PyTurboWizard provides a standardized testing setup for turbomachinery cases in Ansys Fluent through Pythonic access with PyFluent. This matrix describes functionalities:

Case	Fluid	Inlet BC	Outlet BC	Expression template	Stages	Interface types	Parametric study support
Gas turbine (compressible)	Ideal air	Total pressure, mass flow, volume flow	Static pressure, exit corrected mass
Flow, mass flow, volume Flow	Yes	Unlimited	General, periodic, no pitch-scale, pitch-scale, mixing plane	Yes
Compressor (compressible)	Ideal air	Total pressure, mass flow, volume flow	Static pressure, exit corrected mass
Flow, mass flow, volume flow	Yes	Unlimited	General, periodic, no pitch-scale, pitch-scale, mixing plane	Yes
Gas turbine (incompressible)	Ideal air	Total pressure, mass flow, volume flow	Static pressure, exit corrected mass
Flow, mass flow, volume flow	Yes	Unlimited	General, periodic, no pitch-scale, pitch-scale, mixing plane	Yes
Compressor (incompressible)	Ideal air	Total pressure, mass flow, volume flow	Static pressure, exit corrected mass
Flow, mass flow, volume flow	Yes	Unlimited	General, periodic, no pitch-scale, pitch-scale, mixing plane	Yes

Note: The default rotation axis is expected to be the z-axis (0,0,1) with axis origin (0,0,0).

Getting started

PyTurboWizard is developed for Ansys Fluent 2024 R1 and later. When running the Ansys GPU Solver, you can use PyTurboWizard with the -gpu flag in the launching options. However, not all features are supported.

Installation

You should create a dedicated Python virtual environment to install PyTurboWizard in. To quickly create and install this environment, consider using the Ansys Python Manager.

Use pip to install PyTurboWizard in this environment:

pip install ansys-ptw

All needed libraries are installed automatically.

For developers

If you plan on doing local development of PyTurboWizard with Git, install the latest release:

git clone https://github.com/ansys/pyturbowizard
pip install -e .

How to run

After installing the latest version of PyTurboWizard, you can prepare data in your working directory and then run it:

1. Copy Fluent data, including mesh data and profiles, into you working directory.

2. Copy a configuration file to your Fluent working directory.

3. Adjust the configuration file to your setup. For more information, see Set up the configuration file.

4. Execute the script:

   ansys-ptw <PathToConfigurationFile.json/yaml>

Useful documents

• Set up the configuration file
• Speedline simulation setup example