STAR-CCM+ v11.02 Launches

CD-adapco, a provider of multidisciplinary engineering simulation software, has released version 11.02 of its STAR-CCM+ integrated simulation solution for solving problems like fluid flows, heat transfer, solids flows and stress. This release, the company says, provides new modeling capabilities that bring users productivity and usability enhancements, including a new visualization technique called Data Focus for exploring and interrogating results interactively. STAR-CCM+ v11.02 also incorporates 40 new features inspired by user-submitted ideas.

STAR-CCM+ v11.02’s new Data Focus technique lets engineers link, explore and interrogate plotted quantitative numerical data and qualitative visual data interactively. Image courtesy of CD-adapco.

CD-adapco says that its new Data Focus interactive visualization technique is an exclusive STAR-CCM+ feature intended to address the challenges engineers face when trying to understand large sets of interdependent data and complex 3D vector fields. Data Focus provides users with a live, interactive link between quantitative numerical data in plots and qualitative visual data in scenes. With this quantitative and qualitative analysis link, adds CD-adapco, users can dig deeper into their simulation results easily and effectively gain insight into the key influences on a product’s performance.

Key new STAR-CCM+ v11.02 features include local surface remeshing, native cylindrical primitive particle types for DEM (discrete element method) modeling and co-extrusion in the software’s Computational Rheology capabilities.

The new Local Surface Remeshing mode can reduce surface mesh generation time up to an order of magnitude, says CD-adapco. With this capability users can now remesh selected areas when they change mesh parameters or change a design rather than having to remesh the entire surface area. Users choose what they want to remesh, whether that means a single surface or most of the model.

Debuting in STAR-CCM+ v11.02 is a new Local Surface Remeshing mode that allows users to remesh only selected areas when changing mesh parameters or performing design changes. Image courtesy of CD-adapco.

STAR-CCM+ v11.02’s new native cylindrical primitive particle types for DEM modeling eliminate the need to use computationally expensive composite particles to model cylindrical objects. By using true cylinders to represent objects such as tablets rather than a collection of spheres, computational time needed to simulate is reduced while a more accurate representation of the particle physics is achieved.

For DEM (discrete element method) modeling, STAR-CCM+ v11.02 introduces new native cylindrical primitive particle types. Image courtesy of CD-adapco.

STAR-CCM+‘s Computational Rheology ability to model single material extrusion processes has been enhanced in v11.02 to provide users the ability to model complex extrusion processes with two or more material streams, extending the scope of applications where STAR-CCM+ can be used. With this capability, users can specify different materials for each extrusion feed stream as well as specify the morphing behavior of internal, immiscible free surfaces.

STAR-CCM+ 11.02 also debuts new functionality for Hinged Multi-Body Motion modeling. This functionality, explains the company, allows users to model complex dynamic fluid body interaction scenarios where multiple parts are coupled with common mechanical joints. Also new is FSI (fluid-structure interaction) of rotating bodies. This ability enables efficient two-way coupling by simulating rotating solid parts in a local rotating frame of reference, leading to significant time savings in throughput, specifically for applications in the marine industry, according to CD-adapco.

“STAR-CCM+ v11.02 continues to emphasize our focus on Multidisciplinary Design eXploration (MDX),” said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, CD-adapco senior vice president of Product Management, in a press statement. “Our primary objective is to equip our customers with the necessary tools to elevate their confidence in the simulation results and help them make critical design decisions quickly and with certainty, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.”

For more information on STAR-CCM+ and v11.02, visit CD-adapco.

Learn about STAR-CCM+ v11.02’s new Data Focus visualization technique.

Click here to learn how Local Surface Remeshing operates.

Go here for details on native cylindrical primitive particle types for DEM modeling.

Read more about the new co-extrusion capabilities in STAR-CCM+ v11.02.

See why DE‘s editors selected STAR-CCM+ v11.02 as their Pick of the Week.

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