Chapter 3: Forced Response Add-on

The Forced Response Add-on provides a comprehensive way of investigating the aeromechanics, and ultimately, the reliability of turbomachinery blade rows. Working in conjunction with Ansys Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools, the Forced Response Add-on accurately predicts the structural vibrations of industrial components. Advanced physical phenomena such as airfoil aeroelasticity, flutter, deterministic and probabilistic mistuning, as well as an array of loading and boundary conditions can be modeled and studied. Efficient high-fidelity modeling is achieved using a combination of core technologies such as cyclic symmetry and mode-superposition as well as innovative techniques to model mistuning and aeroelasticity in a reduced space. Based in Workbench Mechanical, the Forced Response Add-on is the most intuitive, reliable, and efficient way to simulate turbomachinery blade rows.