Editor's Pick: STAR-CCM+ v10.02 Released

 I was four years old when I nearly burnt the house down. I was curious about the composition of brown paper bags and had none to examine. I reasoned that I could create brown paper bag-like material using napkins and the toaster. The experiment did not, alas, function as anticipated. If I had had some CAE software like STAR-CCM+ from CD-adapco to test my early design concepts and the physics involved prior to my real-world physical test, a welt [sic] of embarrassment would have been avoided.

See, CD-adapco has this vision they call Multidisciplinary Design eXploration (MDX). The philosophy underlying MDX is to provide you with the tools and a methodology that enable you to test design ideas from the earliest concept development stages against physics phenomena the design will encounter over its operational life. This means for you constant design improvement and, of course, ultimately a more robust end design.

The recently released 10.02 version of CD-adapco’s STAR-CCM+ integrated CFD (computational fluid dynamics) system for solving flow of fluids and solids, heat transfer and stress problems embodies the MDX philosophy. Three words summarize MDX actualization in this release: technology, user experience and productivity. Today’s Pick of the Week write-up covers a boatload of enhancements in this release, but here are some highlights.

Among the technology improvements in v10.02 are a new capability for the remote execution of a CAD client and an interaction model between VOF (volume of fluid), Fluid Film and Lagrangian models. The former lets you modify your model in the CAD software through STAR-CCM+ while it’s running on a remote cluster. The coolest part of the interaction model is that it opens up new application areas like crankcase and gearbox sloshing as well as part dipping.

The user experience gets a new standalone collaboration and file-sharing tool called STAR-View+. You also have improved capabilities for adjusting the strain put on your GPU (graphics processing unit) while rendering. While that seems as much a productivity enhancement as a capability expansion, the company emphasizes that v10.02 also provides “significantly reduced” turnaround time for data mapping, condensed scalability and memory usage.

And that’s just the beginning. For example, CD-adapco says that STAR-CCM+ v10.02 has 40 new features suggested by its user community alone. Hit today’s Pick of the Week link and learn more about STAR-CCM+ v10.02. Well worth your time.

Thanks, Pal. – Lockwood

Anthony J. Lockwood

Editor at Large, Desktop Engineering

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