Ansys DesignModeler – Import from BladeGen to DesignModeler

BladeGen designs the blade itself, working with meridional profiles, angles and thickness distributions rather than with solid geometry. To simulate it you need that design as a body you can slice, enclose and mesh, which is what DesignModeler is for.

The import brings the blade in as a geometry you can then operate on: build the flow passage around it, define the periodic faces of a single sector, and prepare the interfaces for the mesh.

From there the usual turbomachinery route applies. Mesh one passage instead of the whole wheel, make the periodic faces match node for node with a Match Control, and let the rotating zone be solved in its own reference frame.