Concepts NREC Releases Agile Engineering Design System v2024.2

Version 2024.2 is available now for active Agile Product Support members to download.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT, Oct 4, 2024 – Concepts NREC is pleased to announce 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 they have offered Pushbutton CFD, the ability for a turbomachinery designer to run CFD 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. Companies that rely on AxCent for design and CFX for analysis will now have a greatly streamlined workflow to increase productivity.


They have also made a major upgrade to their Throughflow solver. The Throughflow solver is a 2-D version of their 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 of the modules have been upgraded in this release and every engineer will find something new to help them design better turbomachinery. 

Any design coming out of their CAE tools can be seamlessly transferred to MAX-PAC, their 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.

Dr. Peter Weitzman, president of Agile Engineering Software commented “Although we do not sell CFX ourselves, we acknowledge that it is one of the industry standard tools for turbomachinery design and analysis. Our customers have been asking us to integrate CFX with AxCent for a long time and I am happy that we can deliver this to make their work easier. I also want to add that this version of AxCent won’t look like the one your boss learned 25 years ago, the 3D graphics have had an overhaul for a nicer look!”

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

For more information, visit conceptsnrec.com.