Dish Generator Computer Model

     This program is currently being written in Visual Basic. It accepts certain design criteria such as dish diameter, operating temperature and pressure and various material properties like thermal conduction coefficients, thermal expansion coefficients, allowable stresses at temperature etc., and then outputs design specifications such as optimum pipe length and size, turbine fan blade size, shape and number of stages, theoretical power output, and most importantly a material cost analysis. It is currently waiting on the steam tables program to be completed and incorporated. At a later date it will output CAD file solid model specifications for the physical design, which will can then feed into a finite element analysis to predict thermal gradients, stresses and flow parameters with hopefully a reasonable facsimile to reality.
 
Dish Generator Screen Snapshot