Introduction

EW is a collection of Octave scripts that generates a profiled
endwall design and is described in the following papers:

MacPherson, Richard & Ingram, Grant 2010, Endwall Profile Design for
the Durham Cascade using Genetic Algorithms, Seventh South African
Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics, SACAM10. Pretoria,
South Africa, South African Association for Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics.

and

McIntosh J, MacPherson R, Ingram G, Hogg S, 2011, PROFILED ENDWALL
DESIGN USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS WITH DIFFERENT OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS.
ASME Paper GT2011-45836 Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2011 GT2011
June 6-11, 2011, Vancouver, Canada

and

Hilfer M, Ingram G, Hogg S, 2012, ENDWALL PROFILING WITH TIP CLEARANCE
FLOWS. ASME Paper GT2012-68488 Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2012
GT2012 June 6-10, 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark

It is therefore likely to be of use if you want to design your own
endwalls or you would like to learn some details about what we did.

This release PEW V2 covers the endwalls generated in the final paper
presented in 2012.

It is released under a free software license but to actually get it to
work you need to also have a meshing program and a fluid flow
calculation program. The software is also design to work on GNU/Linux
systems - it may well work on Windows we just haven't tried it
yet. Although we have done a great deal of work to move to a full free
software approach but using arbitrary surfaces is a challenge with
free or open source meshing programs.

The meshing program was ICEM and the fluid calculation program was
Fluent, both of these were v12.

There is also little documentation to speak of but we are happy to
answer questions about the operation and use of the code if you e-mail
me. We have a plan to make a Source-forge site where you can interact
with use more directly but thought it would be nice to have the code
corresponding to the paper be available for release sooner rather than
later.