A multi-physics turbomachinery simulation capability is currently being developed under the HPCMP CREATE™-AV program. The end goal of this effort is to provide full-annulus turbomachinery simulations including the aircraft inlet system and blade structural deformation using highly parallel analysis software. This paper describes the mixing plane simulation capability of the unstructured grid turbomachinery computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver. The mixing plane capability was shown to agree well with data for multi-stage simulations in regions away from rotor stall and choke. This new capability will serve to improve the fidelity of aircraft numerical simulations and can be used as a design tool or diagnostic technique to improve the quality and reduce the cost of future weapon systems. The CFD capability is available with the release of HPCMP CREATE™-AV Kestrel v6.3.
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