To calculate the transport of physical quantities on a discretized mesh.įor fluid flow the Navier–Stokes equations are solved in each of the cells. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is primarily Computational fluid dynamics software which uses the Finite element analysis or Finite volume method The program uses a client-server architecture, implemented using object-oriented programming. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is developed according to a continual improvement process, with a new version released every four months. The first official release included the first commercially available polyhedral mesher, offering faster model convergence compared to an equivalent tetrahedral mesh. A unique feature was a generalized polyhedral cell formulation, allowing the solver to handle any mesh type imported. STAR-CCM+ was announced at the 2004 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference in Reno, Nevada. STAR-CCM+ aimed to take advantage of more modern programming methods and to provide an expandable framework. STAR-CD was widely used most notably in the automotive industry. History ĭevelopment 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 an Imperial College London CFD research group. It is now a part of the Simcenter Portfolio of software tools. 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.įormerly 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. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Computational fluid dynamics and multiphysics simulation

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