Simcenter STAR-CCM+
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| Developer(s) | Siemens PLM Software |
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| Initial release | 2004 |
| Stable release | Version 2020.3
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| Platform | Linux, Windows |
| Available in | English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean |
| Type | Computational fluid dynamics and multiphysics simulation |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Simcenter STAR-CCM+ website |
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows the modeling and analysis of a range of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, stress, particulate flow, electromagnetics and related phenomena.[1]
Formerly known as STAR-CCM+, the software was first developed by CD-adapco and was acquired by Siemens Digital Industries Software as part of the purchase of CD-adapco in 2016. It is now a part of the Simcenter Portfolio of software tools.[2]
History
Development work on STAR-CCM+ was started after a decision was taken to design a new, integrated CFD tool to replace the existing product STAR-CD which had been developed during the 1980s and 1990s by Computational Dynamics Ltd, a spin-off company from Professor Brian Spalding's Imperial College London research group.[3] STAR-CD was widely used most notably in the automotive industry.[4] STAR-CCM+ aimed to take advantage of more modern programming methods and to provide an expandable framework.[5]
STAR-CCM+ was announced at the 2004 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference in Reno, Nevada.[6] A unique feature was a generalized polyhedral cell formulation, allowing the solver to handle any mesh type imported.[5] The first official release included the first commercially available polyhedral mesher, offering faster model convergence compared to an equivalent tetrahedral mesh.[7][8]
Development
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is developed according to a continual improvement process, with a new version released every four months.[9] The program uses a client-server architecture,[10] implemented using object-oriented programming.[9]
Capabilities
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is primarily Computational fluid dynamics software which uses the Finite element analysis or Finite volume method to calculate the transport of physical quantities on a discretized mesh. For fluid flow the Navier–Stokes equations are solved in each of the cells. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ has multiphysics capabilities including:
- Fluid flow through porous media
- Multiphase flow
- Non-Newtonian fluid
- Rheology
- Turbulence
- Viscoelasticity
Usage
Prior to CD-adapco's acquisition by Siemens, the customer base was approximately 3,200 accounts with 52% of licence sales attributed to the automotive industry.[1]
See also
References
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- ^ a b "CFD Review | CD adapco Group Releases STAR-CCM+". www.cfdreview.com. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ "Dynamics Magazine Issue 22, Spring 2004". mdx2.plm.automation.siemens.com. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ "CFD Review | CD-adapco Releases STAR-CCM+ Box Set". www.cfdreview.com. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ Peric, Milovan (2004). "New Development in Numerical Methods". ERCOFTAC Bulletin. 62 – via ERCOFTAC.
- ^ a b "STAR-CCM+ V3.02: Three is the Magic Number". CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive. February 29, 2008.
- ^ Palazzi, Antonello (2018). "3.2". Nuclear thermal hydraulic analysis using coupled CFD and system codes (PDF) (PhD). Imperial College London. Retrieved July 6, 2020.