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The design of the meridional contour is the second important step to design the impeller.

Meridional design is divided in 3 parts:

•Primary flow path
This contains the design of the primary flow path. Necessary for the following design steps.

•Hub/Shroud materials (optionally)
This contains the design of hub and/or shroud material solids. This is an optional part focusing on stress analysis.

•Secondary flow path (optionally)
This contains the design the secondary flow path behind hub and/or shroud. This is an optional part focusing on detailed flow analysis.

Possible warnings

Problem	Possible solution
Inlet hub diameter: deviations between Meridional Contour and Main Dimensions are larger than 0.1%
The difference between the hub diameter and the corresponding geometric size in the meridian is too large. This is possible for imported polylines only.	Adjust either the main dimensions or the imported curve.
Inlet shroud diameter: deviations between Meridional countours and main dimension are larger than 0.1%
The difference between the suction diameter and the corresponding geometric size in the meridian is too large. This is possible for imported polylines only.	Adjust either the main dimensions or the imported curve.
Outlet diameter: deviations between Meridional Contour and Main Dimensions are larger than 0.1%
The difference between the impeller diameter and the corresponding geometric size in the meridian is too large. This is possible for imported polylines only.	Adjust either the main dimensions or the imported curve.
Outlet width: deviations between Meridional Contour and Main Dimensions are larger than 0.1%
The difference between the outlet width and the corresponding geometric size in the meridian is too large. This is possible for imported polylines only.	Adjust either the main dimensions or the imported curve.
Hub/ Shroud contour has discontinuities inside blade region.
The hub resp. shroud contour is divided into sub-curves who are not connected smoothly in blade region.	Adjust hub resp. shroud contour and apply smoothness at connectors who are inside blade region.
Angle between hub/ shroud contour and inlet/ outlet is not recommended.
The current angle between hub/shroud contour and inlet/outlet can cause problems in Model finishing.	Manipulate hub/shroud contour or move inlet/outlet to change the current angle to inlet/outlet. Contour may contain extremely small and unnecessary parts which should be removed.
Hub contour intermittently touching z-axis (r=0) is not supported.
The hub curve is touching the z-axis internally. Before and behind it the radius is greater than 0 creating a complete constriction.	Avoid hub regions at r = 0 internally or split geometry into different components.
Meridional contour has an invalid topology. (inside out)
The sense of circulation of the closed wire containing the inlet, shroud, outlet and hub curve in this specific order is counter-clockwise.	Manipulate meridional curves to guarantee a clockwise sense of circulation or adjust inlet and outlet in main dimensions.
Contour has invalid edges. (Material solids & Secondary flow path)
When using Line segment curves with rounded corners the defined radius could be too large. This can result in sharp edges and very small segments.	Corner radius of the invalid (red) curve has to be reduced. This could be achieved by dragging the circle center. The curve is valid when it is no longer drawn in red.