Concepts NREC Launches Version 2024.2 of Agile Engineering Design System

Concepts NREC announces the latest release of the Agile Engineering Design System. The Agile Engineering Design System is an integrated suite of software modules for CAE and CAM specialized for turbomachinery.

For decades the company has offered Pushbutton CFD, the ability for a turbomachinery designer to run computational fluid dynamics inside of the design environment with a set of default meshing, boundary conditions, and solver settings and then post-process the CFD results with turbomachinery-specific views. For the past 8 years they have included the ability to run the NUMECA Fine/Turbo (now Cadence Fidelity) in the same environment and with the release of v2024.2 the ANSYS TurboGrid mesher and CFX solvers can be used in the same way. 

Concepts NREC also made a major upgrade to its Throughflow solver. The Throughflow solver is a 2D version of the pbCFD solver that relies on empirical loss and deviation models in the blade-to-blade direction. Throughflow now includes a design mode that can automatically set inlet and exit blade angles to match a desired incidence and stage pressure split. In addition, they continue their work making secondary flows in all classes of turbomachines easier to design and analyze at all levels (meanline, 3D geometry, and CFD). All modules have been upgraded in this release. 

Any design coming out of the CAE tools can be transferred to MAX-PAC, the turbomachinery specialized 5-axis machining toolpath generation software. Version 2024.2 of MAX-PAC has been simultaneously released and includes a major upgrade to the mixer functionality. Users can now generate inserts, retracts, transitions and change spindle speeds while mixing operations. They also continue their plan to make MAX-PAC easier to use by allowing customization of APT format inside of the MAX-PAC UI.

Version 2024.2 is available now for active Agile Product Support (APS) members to download at the customer support center.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.