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STAR-CCM+ V4.04: Now with Harmonic Balance
CD-adapco is pleased
to announce the release of STAR-CCM+ V4.04. In the six years since
its first release, STAR-CCM+ has evolved into more than just a CFD
code, and is now an integrated platform for powerful multi-disciplinary
engineering simulation, including: combustion; multiphase flow;
heat transfer through solids and fluids; dynamic fluid body interaction;
and solid stress: all from within a single environment.
“STAR-CCM+ V4.04 includes over 100
customer requested enhancements and 220 individual development tasks,”
explains VP Product Management Jean-Claude Ercolanelli. “CD-adapco’s
Product Development Strategy is geared towards, and driven by, our
customers. By releasing a new version every four months, we allow
our customers to directly influence the development of the software,
while giving them immediate access to the latest in cutting edge
simulation technology.”
The Power of Automation
STAR-CCM+ V4.04’s automation capabilities
provide a stress free path from geometry import to engineering simulation
results. For generations of engineers who built careers and reputations
on mastering the “blood, sweat and tears” approach to
Computational Aided Engineer (manually generating computational
meshes for complex industrial geometries), this can seem a little
disconcerting, however automation has good news here too:
“The overriding goal of automation
is to free engineers from the repetitive routine tasks associated
with preparing and running simulations, allowing them to focus their
time analyzing engineering results and generating a constant stream
of useful information to guide the design process, ultimately resulting
in more innovative, better engineered, products,” says
Ercolanelli. “By adopting this philosophy not only it is
it possible to do more upfront engineering at a lower cost, but
also allows simulation in becoming even more pervasive, being used
at every stage of the engineering process, and spreading CAE benefits
in all levels of industry.”
Power Session
Combined with low cost computing, CD-adapco’s
Power Session licensing scheme (which allows users to exploit unlimited
computer resources), the power of automation helps to free the design
process from the traditional iterative design-test-build loop, allowing
engineers to simultaneously investigate multiple design variants,
and ultimately explore the whole design space, rather than a few
selected points.
Powerful new features
Each new release of STAR-CCM+, provides a range
of new pre and post processing capabilities, solver enhancements
and the inclusion of additional validated physics models.
- Automatic meshing: the already
powerful automatic meshing capability is further enhanced with
the introduction of an automated wake refinement tool, which locally
increases the mesh resolution based on the shape of a body, and
allows greater accuracy of external flow without time-consuming
setup procedures.
- Thermal Comfort Management
Wizard: A new dedicated wizard for setting up occupant thermal
comfort studies designed in collaboration with CD-adapco’s
partners in the transportation industry. The Thermal Comfort Manager
wizard accounts for human body properties to asses passenger comfort.
- Harmonic Balance Method: The
implementation of the revolutionary harmonic balance method for
the solution of periodically repeating turbulent flows enables
the study of unsteady effects in rotating machinery with computational
time scales that are drastically reduced compared to traditional
transient methodologies. CD-adapco will be exploring the benefits
of the Harmonic Balance Method in an exclusive
free webinar.
- Eulerian Multiphase: STAR-CCM+
V4.04 also builds on its multiphase modeling including the first
instance of the Eulerian multiphase model, non-newtonian VOF and
improvements in the Lagrangian technique including droplet freezing
and multicomponent droplet evaporation.
- Real Gas Effects: The introduction
of real gas effects further enhances STAR-CCM+’s pedigree
in the aerospace industry allowing accurate simulation of hypersonic
flows.
The STAR-CCM+ V4.04 is now available
from CD-adapco’s User
Services site, or from your local CD-adapco office.
A harmonic balance demo videos isavailable
here.
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