WELCOME

CD-adapco is a leading global

provider of full-spectrum
computer-aided engineering
simulation (CAE) solutions
including CAD & PLMembedded Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
software, CAE consulting
services and training for fluid
flow, heat transfer, stress,
and more.

About STAR-CCM+
STAR-CCM+ is a process oriented CAE
software to solve for multi-disciplinary
problems within a single integrated
environment.
A uniquely flexible process brings unrivalled
ease-of-use and automation, increasing the
productivity of engineers by allowing them
to deliver robust and accurate engineering
solutions in a reliable and efficient manner.

Image courtesy of E.T.S.I. Aeronauticos,

Technical University of Madrid
F18 flying at high angle of attack.

Jonathan G. Dudley
Air Force Research Lab
USAF

STAR-CCM+ is a user-friendly,
powerful multi-physics
framework tool set for a variety
of fields.

PRODUCTIVITY & EFFICIENCY

Productivity

Efficiency

Increased productivity with an easy-to-use,

repeatable workflow

A unique single integrated environment

ensuring efficient deployment of resources.

STAR-CCM+ seamlessly fits into your existing

process to give you the power to handle the
most complex problems in an interface that is
easy to learn, use and remember. Designed
with extensive and ongoing feedback from
our customers, STAR-CCM+ is an intuitive
and modern analysis environment that
guides users effortlessly through setting up,
running, and analyzing complex engineering
simulations.

Employing a unique process-oriented

approach to engineering simulation,
STAR-CCM+ eliminates bottlenecks by
automating time-consuming tasks such
as repairing complex and poor quality CAD
models or repeating simulations on multiple
design variants.

STAR-CCM+ significantly increases

engineering productivity through a consistent,
repeatable and easily automated workflow,
allowing professional engineers to spend
their time concentrating on actual engineering
analysis, rather than geometry preparation,
meshing and model setup.

STAR-CCM+ makes you more efficient by

allowing you to fully automate your CAE
simulation workflow at a component, system
and process level using JAVA macros and the
simulation assistant. The Simulation Assistant
allows the user to write step by step workflows
that execute actions within STAR-CCM+. These
assistants allow analysis best practices to be
captured and repeated, ensuring accuracy of
results with automation of everything from
simple boundary condition changes through
to custom panels encapsulating simulation
workflow.
With JAVA scripting, automatic design-todesign solution mapping and parametric
3D-CAD, STAR-CCM+ is the tool of choice
for digital prototyping and iterative design
studies.

Dr. Gerald Seider

InDesA

InDesA came to the conclusion

that there is a demand for
a highly optimized virtual
test environment that is fast,
flexible and cost-efficient in
comparison with traditional
physical testing. STAR-CCM+
delivers us the optimal
performance required.

ROBUSTNESS&RELIABILITY
Robustness

Reliability

Robust CAD model handling & preparation

Fully automatic meshing

STAR-CCM+ has a comprehensive suite of

geometry creation and preparation tools that
significantly reduce the number of man-hours
required to ensure that your model is ready
for meshing.

STAR-CCM+ meshing provides superior

automation, speed, control and reliability. The
accuracy and fidelity of the numerical solution
is highly dependent on a good quality mesh
and the powerful meshing tools in STAR-CCM+
cut down the geometry preparation and
meshing time from weeks and months to
hours, while delivering a high-quality mesh on
complex geometries.

This process is robust and can be run

interactively or automated in batch. STAR-CCM+
delivers all the tools required to obtain a
high-fidelity representation of the geometry.
STAR-CCM+s CAD clients offer the chance
to leverage advanced capabilities from within
your familiar CAD and PLM environment. With
full bi-directional associativity, boundary setup
and both polyhedral and trimmed cell meshing,
CAD clients allow analysis to be easily
integrated into your engineering design and
optimization process.
Our 3D-CAD modeling tool allows you to import,
create and modify parametric geometries as
well as automatically extract fluid domains. The
surface wrapper shrink-wraps a high-quality
triangulated surface onto the geometry,
closing holes, joining disconnected and
overlapping surfaces as well as automatically
discarding obsolete surfaces. The STAR-CCM+
single integrated environment provides the
fastest, most automatic route from complex
CAD models to engineering solution.

STAR-CCM+ can mesh the most complex

geometries reliably while giving flexibility
to the user to choose the level of control
desired. Employing state-of-the-art meshing
technology the generation of either trimmed
hexahedral or arbitrary polyhedral cells is
possible with a single click. Parallel meshing
is available for the trimmed cell and polyhedral
meshers allowing users to fully utilize hardware
resources to reduce turnaround time.
STAR-CCM+ also has tools to automatically
generate prismatic meshes for thin objects
such as sheet metals and cylindrical
geometries such as pipelines, cyclones and
manifolds.
Fully conformal meshes across multiple
physical continua may be automatically
created ensuring optimal accuracy and
computational efficiency, removing the
need for any interpolation at the interface
of different domains. STAR-CCM+ is ideal for
problems involving moving parts, fluid-structure
interaction or conjugate heat transfer.
Streamlines through a turbocharger with CHT
analysis of both hot and cold side

Image courtesy of Bureau of Technics,

Russia. Numerical simulation of ventilation
systems in a building.
Image shows flow streamlines from HVAC
units colored by velocity and temperature
variations on the walls and floor.

Scott D. Reynolds
Manager of the CAES Group
M/E Engineering, PC

Changing to STAR-CCM+ was

the best decision we ever
made.

ACCURACY & FLEXIBILITY

Accuracy

Flexibility

Ensuring accuracy through a complete range of validated physics.

A flexible approach to parallel processing with

client-server architecture.

With STAR-CCM+ there is no need to compromise ease-of-use over capability or accuracy.

STAR-CCM+ includes an extensive range of validated physical models that provide the user with
a toolset capable of tackling the most complex multi-disciplinary engineering problems.
Time
Steady-state, unsteady implicit/explicit,
harmonic balance
Flow
Coupled/segregated flow and energy
Motion
Stationary, moving reference frame, rigid body
motion, mesh morphing, large displacement
solid stress, overset meshes
Dynamic Fluid Body Interaction (DFBI)
Fluid-induced motion in 6degrees of freedom
or less, catenary and linear spring couplings
Material
Single, multiphase and multi-component
fluids, solids
Regime
Inviscid, laminar, turbulent (RANS, LES,
DES), laminar-turbulent transition modeling.
incompressible through to hypersonic
non-newtonian flows
Sensitivity analysis
Adjoint solver with cost functions for pressure
drop, uniformity, force, moment, tumble and
swirl. Sensitivities with respect to position and
flow variables.
Multi-Domain
Porous media (volumetric and baffle), fan and
heat exchanger models

Image courtesy of Atkins Ltd, UK.

Consequence modeling analysis of safety
related issues for an offshore platform

Heat Transfer and Conjugate Heat Transfer

Conducting solid shells, solar, multi-band and
specular thermal radiation (discrete ordinates
or surface-to-surface) convection, conjugate
heat transfer

Multi-component Multiphase
Free surface (VOF) with boiling, cavitation,
evaporation & condensation, melting &
solidification, Eulerian multiphase with
boiling, gas dissolution, population balance,
granular flow, Lagrangian, droplet breakup,
collision, evaporation, errosion and wall
interaction as well as discrete element
modeling (DEM) composite and clumped
particles, non spherical contact, particle
deformation and breakup, fluid film with
droplet stripping, melting & solidification,
evaporation & boiling, dispersed multiphase
for soiling and icing analysis fluid film.
Multi-Discipline
Finite Volume stress (small and large
displacements, contacts), fluid structure
interaction, electromagnetic field, Joule
heating, electro-deposition coating,
electrochemistry, casting
Combustion and Chemical Reaction
PPDF, CFM, PCFM, EBU, progress variable
model (PVM), thickened flame model, soot
moments emission, and DARS CFD complex
chemistry coupling interphase reactions for
Eulerian multiphase
Aeroacoustic Analysis
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) spectral analysis,
broadband noise sources, Ffowcs-Williams
Hawkings (FWH) sound propagation model,
wave number analysis
CAE Integration
Co-simulation and bi-directional mapping
between STAR-CCM+ and 1D/3D CAE codes

Jang Whan Kim, Technip

With an ever increasing need for analysis using

sophisticated, realistic models, STAR-CCM+ is
designed to utilize your hardware resources as
effectively as possible. Whether the compute
nodes are a cluster of workstations or a single
supercomputer, STAR-CCM+ allows the user
full interactive access to all simulation data
and solutions while running.
The software is deployed as a client that
handles the user interface and visualization,
and a server which performs the compute
operations. When executed in parallel,
STAR-CCM+ is scalable across any number of
processors allowing very large analyses to be
performed, monitored and manipulated from
laptops or lightweight workstations.
The client/server approach is designed
to facilitate easy collaboration across
organizations, simulations can be accessed
independently of physical location and local
computer resources.
STAR-CCM+ has a number of Power licensing
options giving you complete flexibility on how,
and where, you utilize hardware resources.
Power Session licenses allow STAR-CCM+
to be launched on an unlimited number of
cores for a fixed cost. Power-on-Demand is
your gateway to analysis on the cloud where
STAR-CCM+ usage is counted by time, not
number of sessions or processor count.
Power Tokens may be used to run concurrent
design variants in an exploration or optimization
campaign, to start a pre-post session, or as
parallel core licenses for standard analyses.

The success of numerical

simulation at Technip owes a
lot to the very good features of
STAR-CCM+ to handle analysis
of platform structures

Results from STAR-CCM+ are

used to size/order/select
components and drive design
changes. STAR-CCM+ allows
us to reduce physical testing,
typically only having to validate
the final design intent
Luc Dupon, CNH Belgium N.V.
Image courtesy of CNH Belgium N.V.
Residue Handling Simulation on Combine
Using DEM

CD-adapco is the leading global provider of full-spectrum CAE simulation solutions for fluid flow, heat transfer, stress and
more, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, CAD and PLM-embedded CFD tools and CAE consulting
services and training.
Its principal offices are in New York, London and Yokohama with subsidiary offices across the world.

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