STAR-CCM+ Version 2 Released

By DE Editors

CD-adapco (London, UK, and Melville, NY) has announced the release of STAR-CCM+ Version 2, its CFD (computational fluid dynamics) solution that strives to combine ease of use and state-of-the-art, high-level modeling technology. Calling this a “major release,” the company says that the meshing technology in this latest of STAR-CCM+ has been completely re-written “from scratch” and its advanced physics capabilities have been expanded greatly.
 

According to the company, the rewriting of the software’s mesh generation technology produces a more robust, more powerful, and more automatic process, from surface import to post-processing, than previous versions. Among the highlights cited by the company is its Surface Wrapper capability, which eliminates times dedicated to tedious model set-ups by providing automatic repair of complex CAD geometry. Other areas of interest include the software’s polyhedral meshing, which gives you automatic meshing of complex geometries, without compromising solution accuracy, and its solver optimized meshing.

STAR-CCM+ V2 offers a new physical models, including Free-surface and Volume of Fluid (VOF), combustion and radiation, and boundary-layer transition. STAR-CCM+, says CD-adapco has been specifically designed to deliver scalable solutions on even the largest meshes of 1 billion cells or more: Unlike any other CFD code.

CD-adapco plans to offer a number of free webinars on STAR-CCM+‘s meshing capabilities. To register for download a trial version of STAR-CCM+,  click here.

For more information the webinars and CD-adapco’s line of CFD and CAD-embedded CFD solutions, CAE consulting services, and training options, click here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.