Loading the Starting File and Generating the Mesh
To set up the STAR-CCM+ simulation, load the starting simulation supplied and generate the volume mesh.
Due to the size of the simulation, you are advised to launch this tutorial in parallel mode on, for example, 4 cores.
- Launch Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and select .
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In the Load a File dialog:
- Set Process Options to Parallel on Local Host and Compute Processes to 4 or more—depending on the configuration of the machine that you are using.
- Click Browse.
- In the Open dialog, navigate to the motion folder of the downloaded tutorial files and select the file fan_start.sim.
- Click Open, then OK.
To generate the mesh:
- From the main toolbar, select .
- To view the mesh, create a Mesh scene.
- Save the simulation as fan_mrf.sim.