This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project provides the preliminary design, coding, and documentation for a set of Integrated Turbine Meanline Design and Off-Design Codes for Low Cost Rockets. A prototype code will be developed that includes all the user interfaces, high level code modules, and a detailed implementation of one option. This innovation consists of the integration of design and off-design lD analysis tools for supersonic and subsonic turbine analysis. The common user interface and nomenclature for the four meanline turbine codes will save turbine design or analysis engineers time in learning the codes and in implementing and evaluating designs for low cost rocket turbomachinery. Small companies or government groups who do not have the resources to develop their own turbine design and analysis system can readily obtain this software. The cost of turbines can be reduced if small, lean companies are able to provide the turbine instead of the larger, expensive companies. The Phase I effort provides the foundation for the Phase II completion of this software system which will aid this process. Software engineering principles will be used in the analysis, design, coding, test, and documentation of this integrated turbine software system.The completed software system can be sold or licensed to small turbine manufacturing companies. It can be provided to government groups responsible for evaluating turbine proposals, development, or procurement. It can provide consultants with a tool for turbine analysis or design contracts.
