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STAR-CCM+ V3.02: Three is the magic number
CD-adapco today announces
the release of STAR-CCM+ v3.02, their engineering process oriented
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The newest version
continues the demanding four month release schedule and introduces
major enhancements over previous versions including: a dedicated
facility for preparing, simulating and post-processing rotating
or turbomachinery problems; a new automatic surface repair tool;
and the introduction of a new DES turbulence model.
Integrated Turbomachinery Functionality
Turbomachinery has been a target application area for STAR-CCM+
since its inception. Recent releases have included many new features
that are aimed directly at the turbomachinery community, a process
that has now reached maturity with STAR-CCM+ V3.02, which introduces
a dedicated interface for performing turbomachinery simulations.
“The new graphical user interface essentially captures CD-adapco’s
best practice for setting up, meshing, solving and analyzing problems
involving compressors, turbines or other rotating machinery,”
says CD-adapco VP of Product Management Jean-Claude Ercolanelli.
“The interface guides users through the process of performing
turbomachinery analysis step-by-step, but is flexible enough to
allow for significant user customisation. For example, depending
on circumstance users can choose to construct meshes using arbitrary
polyhedral, automatic hexahedra, or using a new elliptical mesher
that produces structured boundary fitted hexahedral meshes.”
STAR-CCM+ V3.02 also includes an enhanced mixing
plane methodology that allows unequal pitch rotor-stator interactions
and a wider range of turbine configurations.
Automatic Surface Repair
The automatic surface repair tool has the ability to fix poor quality
triangulation, self intersection and close proximity faces at the
click of a button. This feature has been extensively tested on range
of industrial geometries of various complexities. The one click
repair may be used at any stage of the surface meshing process to
provide the highest quality surface possible, eliminating the need
for a manual geometry fixing.
Together with the existing surface wrapping and manual surface repair
functionality, STAR-CCM+ V3.02 now offers users a no-compromise
choice between stress-free automatic repair and fine manual control,
or a combination of both.
Engineering challenges, STAR-CCM+ solutions
The goal of any analyst is to produce accurate and meaningful results
in a timely manner. By consistently improving the physical modelling
capabilities of the solver in each new release, STAR-CCM+ helps
to push back the boundaries of what is possible in engineering analysis.
For aerodynamic and aeroacoustic analysis,
STAR-CCM+ V3.02 includes the k-omega SST DES turbulence model, offering
unsteady turbulence modelling without the cost associated with a
full LES simulation. Heat transfer and conjugate heat transfer within
STAR-CCM+ are also enhanced with extended and improved radiation
capabilities and the introduction of an additional dual stream,
single phase heat exchanger model for vehicle thermal comfort in
underhood analysis.
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Try it today
STAR-CCM+ V3.02, bundled with STAR-Design and the STAR-CAD series
is now available from CD-adapco’s User Services site, or from
Veta.
About STAR-CCM+
From CAD models to post-processing, STAR-CCM+ delivers the entire
CFD process in a single integrated software environment. This unique
approach brings unrivaled ease-of-use and automation to CAD preparation,
meshing, model set-up and iterative design studies, enabling your
Engineers to deliver better results, faster.
Innovations such as built-in surface-wrapping, advanced automated
meshing (creating either polyhedral or predominantly hexahedral
volume meshes) and the ability to ‘copy and paste’ components
between models have quickly established STAR-CCM+ a reputation for
producing high-quality results in a single code with minimum user
effort.
From its first release in 2004, STAR-CCM+ has impressed the CFD
community with its rapid pace of development, a new major version
is released every four months. Written ‘from the ground up’
using object-oriented programming and the latest software technology
combined with outstanding ease-of-use and accuracy, STAR-CCM+ is
an entirely new concept in CFD.
STAR-CD 4.04: Flow, thermal and stress simulation
in a single solver
STAR-CD V4.04 is the third major release of
STAR-CD V4, CD-adapco’s flagship simulation tool for Computational
Continuum Mechanics and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Since it’s first
release 20 years ago, STAR-CD has established a reputation for versatility
and is unrivalled in its ability to tackle problems involving multiphysics
and complex geometries. In the latest release, STAR-CD V4.04
enhances this reputation further with an improved meshing process
and the ability to simulate physics till now beyond the reach of
mainstream CFD technology.
STAR-CD V4.04 provides direct access to the
latest automatic surface cleaning and mesh generation technology
from within the pro-STAR environment. This technology, pioneered
in sister code STAR-CCM+, has proved exceptionally popular with
users and in many cases reduced the time-to-mesh from days to hours.
“Our polyhedral mesh technology is now
even more powerful”, says Director of STAR-CD Development Dr
Riaz Sanatian. “The combination of high quality automatic polyhedral
mesh generation and efficient solver technology will provide you
with improved ease-of-use, faster turnaround times and increased
solution accuracy, for all classes of flow, in all application areas.”
STAR-CD V4.04 also pushes back the boundaries
of CFD by introducing a number of key multi-physics capabilities,
available for the first time in a general purpose CFD code. STAR-CD
4.04 is able to simulate problems involving solid stress and melting
or solidification.
“These capabilities will rapidly mature
and open the door to routine analysis of a range of applications,
such as strongly-coupled fluid/solid interaction problems and mould-filling,
that were either very difficult or impossible to solve before”,
says Dr Sanatian.
PS: And don't forgot our range of other methods
to achieve multi-physics solutions: the new direct interface to
Abacus, MpCCI and es-fsi.
Other News:
Welcome to the polyhedral revolution
VETA is pleased to announce the release of the world's first
fully integrated process for polyhedral CFD. The first official
release of the STAR-CCM+/Design combines CD-adapco's technology
leading STAR-CCM+ solver with STAR-Design, which includes the world's
first commercially available polyhedral mesher with technology that
is five years ahead of our competitors. See
more
Simulation software from CD adapco to
challenge next America’s Cup
BMW ORACLE Racing is employing the best possible technology in its
racing yacht design development. In order to study the dynamics
of flow, the design team has selected the CD adapco Group, the leading
global provider of computational engineering solutions, to provide
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software. See
more
STAR-CCM+ V2.10: Multiphase Flow and
More
CD-adapco announced the release of STAR-CCM+ V2.10, the
latest version of their engineering process oriented Computational
Fluid Dynamics software. Maintaining a demanding four-monthly release
cycle, the latest version of STAR-CCM+ includes many enhancements
in terms of usability, CAE process and physical modelling capability.
See
more
Version 3.2 of STAR-CD Released
An major new release of STAR-CD is being distributed. A wide range
of new features are included such as CAD integration with all major
CAD systems, advanced new Eulerian two-phase and combustion models,
new turbulence models, a discrete ordinate radiation model, hybrid
wall function technology, enhanced aeroacoustics capabilities and
much. See
more
STAR-Works
Now Available
(and other CAD plug-ins)
A leading mid-range CAD software package, SolidWorks, and STAR-CD
have been linked to produce an unrivalled integrated CAD/CFD product.
See more
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