SoftInWay’s AxSTREAM AI Improves Turbo Modeling, System Analysis

SoftInWay recently launched an AI-powered engineering environment, dubbed AxSTREAM AI, to minimize modeling friction, quicken iteration cycles, and assist engineering teams with obtaining design insights in the early workflow. The software offers AI-assisted modeling, optimization, and design exploration capabilities, allowing engineers to define turbomachinery components and system-level models with a few factors, including design intent, constraints, and operating conditions.

“These updates are about making AxSTREAM easier and faster to use for real engineering work,” said Valentine Moroz, COO of SoftInWay. “AxSTREAM AI is not a black box or a replacement for engineering judgment. It is designed to assist engineers within their workflow, helping them reach confident decisions earlier while maintaining engineering accuracy and best practices.”

With component- and system-level modeling assistance, engineers can quickly generate and evaluate candidate geometries and explore design configurations in the early development stage. Additionally, AxSTREAM AI helps engineers proactively assess cost drivers and tradeoffs, allowing more cost-aware design decisions while maintaining transparency and physics-based validation.

It’s available as a standalone environment or integrated within AxSTREAM System Simulation, assisting engineers working on turbomachinery design, optimization, and thermal-fluid systems by streamlining the move from concept to validated system behavior. The AI environment injects workflow and physics-aware intelligence into system modeling and turbomachinery design and analysis. Despite the AI’s significant workload, engineers maintain full control and visibility into assumptions, input, results, and established turbomachinery engineering standards.

The platform also adds agentic capabilities to Peter, the company’s AI workmate, which helps engineers configure system models, modify elements, and execute analysis within the AxSTREAM System Simulation workflow. In summary, Peter reduces manual effort while keeping engineers in control. SoftInWay’s new environment bolsters AxSTREAM’s role in system-level analysis, design optimization, and digital twin development, allowing engineers to build and evolve digital representations that reflect real operating behavior.

TurboPump Predesign

In 2023, SoftInWay signed a contract with ESA to use its turbopump predesign tools in AxSTREAM.SPACE to create new turbopump designs for the rocket industry, advancing technology for space exploration. AxSTREAM.SPACE supported ESA’s efforts to improve upon propulsion systems through the software’s advanced turbomachinery and propulsion design.

SoftInWay signed contracts to expand AxSTREAM.SPACE’s reach to additional European customers, allowing the space exploration industry to develop turbopumps for rocket applications. SoftInWay’s program offers specific design, analysis, and optimization features for use in the predesign stages of manufacturing turbopumps for space-faring vehicles.

System Simulation

Also in 2023, SoftInWay announced the release of its updated AxSTREAM System Simulation software, which focuses on system design capabilities, advanced thermal analysis, and features to meet changing industry demands.This version of AxSTREAM introduces features to improve the user experience, including thermal and fluid components to manage heat transfer and hydraulic issues in rotating and stationary elements. In addition, the software offers multi-run capabilities for parametric studies and optimizations, as well as a feature for component customization.

The multi-run capabilities and component customization includes considerations for internal combustion engines, electrical power equipment, and a variety of electrochemical elements. SoftInWay, using its AxSTREAM package, is focused on refining combustion chamber calculations within gas turbines and rocket engines.