PyTurbo - A Python Framework for Aero-thermal Gas Turbine Component Design

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Overview

PyTurbo is NASA Turbomachinery design tool capable of going from a 2D Airfoil Design to a 3D design of a blade and a blade row. This design tool can wrap heatpipe paths inside the airfoil. PyTurbo is a turbomachinery design tool focused on the development of 3D blade rows consisting of 3D Airfoils. There is a need inside NASA to develop our own airfoils, this enables fundamental research into transition, tip leakage passive flow control, cavity flows, and nature inspired shapes. PyTurbo serves as a NASA open-sourced fundamental research design code that anyone at NASA can use. PyTurbo is built with the intent that it can be easily incorporated into the python package index (https://pypi.org/).