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Tutorials show you how to use Simcenter STAR-CCM+ for various applications in a step-by-step format with recommendations for setup, initialization and steps of the solution process specific to the application. Macro and simulation files are available for download for a large proportion of cases.
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The tutorials in this set illustrate various STAR-CCM+ features for building CFD meshes.
Local Wrapper: European Truck
Local wrapping speeds up re-execution of the surface wrapper after local changes are made to the input geometry or wrapper settings.

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Tutorials
Tutorials show you how to use Simcenter STAR-CCM+ for various applications in a step-by-step format with recommendations for setup, initialization and steps of the solution process specific to the application. Macro and simulation files are available for download for a large proportion of cases.
- Using Tutorial Macros and Files
  Macros, input files, and final simulation files for a range of tutorials are provided as an optional download package on the Support Center website. These macros and final simulation files are provided as an aid to the written tutorials, so that you can check your final results against the downloaded files, or against a simulation that is built and run using the macros.
- Introduction
  Welcome to the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ introductory tutorial. In this tutorial, you explore the important concepts and workflow. Complete this tutorial before attempting any others.
- Foundation Tutorials
  The foundation tutorials showcase the major features of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ in a series of short tutorials.
- Geometry
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for creating and working with parts and 3D-CAD.
- Mesh
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various STAR-CCM+ features for building CFD meshes.
  - Surface Wrapper: Intake Manifold
    This tutorial demonstrates how to use the surface wrapper to extract the internal fluid surface from a collection of parts that represent an intake manifold assembly.
  - Surface Repair Tools Brake Assembly
    Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides a suite of tools to help you prepare surface geometry so that it is ready for meshing. This tutorial provides an introduction to some of these tools, using the example of a brake assembly.
  - Parts-Based Meshing External Aerodynamics
    This tutorial demonstrates how to set up a simulation using the parts-based meshing approach.
  - Mesh Operations: Imported Control Valve
    This tutorial demonstrates how to use the surface and volume meshing operations within Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to generate a polyhedral volume mesh with prism layers for a single region. The inputs required to build a trimmed cell mesh with prism layers are also covered.
  - Meshing: Multi-Part Heat Exchanger
    This tutorial demonstrates how to use the surface and volume meshing tools while working with multiple parts within Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
  - Directed Meshing: Electrical Machine
    This tutorial demonstrates how to use the directed meshing tool in STAR-CCM+. Directed meshing allows you to generate a high-quality structured mesh by creating quadrilateral elements on a surface of a body and then sweeping them through its volume.
  - Local Wrapper: European Truck
    Local wrapping speeds up re-execution of the surface wrapper after local changes are made to the input geometry or wrapper settings.
    - Prerequisites
      The instructions in the Surface Wrapper: Intake Manifold tutorial assume that you are already familiar with certain techniques in Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
    - Loading the Simulation
      For this tutorial, you are provided with a simulation file that contains the truck geometry.
    - Generating the Global Wrap
    - Identifying Parts with Poor Resolution
      Some areas on the global wrap are under-resolved. You can improve the wrap by refining these areas using local wrapping.
    - Refining the Wrap on the Radiator Shroud
      The radiator shroud is poorly refined with large cells appearing near the angled section of the shroud.
    - Refining the Wrap on the Engine
      A component on the engine is not resolved correctly and requires refinement.
    - Refining the Wrap on the Oil Sump
      Some details on the surface of the oil sump were lost in the global wrap.
    - Refining the Wrap on the Radiator Hoses
      Some of the radiator hoses are not resolved correctly and are merging together at the point where they are in close proximity.
  - Gap Closure in Surface Wrapper: Drone Main Body
    When using the surface wrapper for geometries that have feature-level holes or gaps, you can find that the core wrapper is unable to cover the whole surface with a closed wrap. To assist, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides a gap closure option that detects and fills these larger voids in the surface.
  - Turbomachinery Mesher: Compressor Stage
    When modelling the flow in turbomachinery applications, a flow-aligned structured mesh is required for accurate solution analysis. The Turbomachinery Mesh operation in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ generates a flow-aligned structured mesh from user-specified input surfaces and parameters.
- Incompressible Flow
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for incompressible fluid flows as well as porosity and solution recording
- Compressible Flow
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for compressible fluid flows as well as harmonic balance.
- Heat Transfer and Radiation
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for heat transfer, radiation, and thermal comfort.
- Multiphase Flow
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for simulating multiphase fluid flow problems
- Discrete Element Method
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for simulating Discrete Element Method problems
- Motion
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various STAR-CCM+ features for simulating problems with moving geometries and meshes, dynamic fluid body interaction, and rigid body motion:
- Reacting Flow
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for simulating reacting flows such as combustion.
- Solid Stress
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for computing deformation, strain, and stresses in solid regions. They also show how such computations can be coupled to the fluid behavior in an analysis of fluid-structure interaction.
- Aeroacoustics
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for solving aeroacoustic simulations.
- Electromagnetism
  The following tutorials illustrate features for solving problems that involve electromagnetic fields.
- Electrochemistry
  The following tutorial demonstrates chemical reactions induced by an electrical current.
- Battery
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for setting up a battery model:
- Automation
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ automation and macro features.
- Design Exploration
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various features for running design exploration studies in Design Manager.
- Coupling with CAE Codes
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for coupling with CAE codes:
- Analysis Methods
  The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for analysing and visualizing simulation data.
- Simcenter STAR-CCM+ In-cylinder
  The tutorials in this set illustrate features for simulating internal combustion engines in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ using the dedicated add-on Simcenter STAR-CCM+ In-cylinder.

Local Wrapper: European Truck

Local wrapping speeds up re-execution of the surface wrapper after local changes are made to the input geometry or wrapper settings.

With this feature, Simcenter STAR-CCM+ only wraps surfaces within a defined location and leaves the mesh on other surfaces unchanged. With local wrapping, you set limits on where you want wrapping to occur by defining local extents. The updated wrap mesh is stitched to the existing global wrap mesh. There are two types of local extents: surface extents and volume extents. Both type of extents are used in this tutorial.

Local wrapping is part-dependent and path-dependent. While local wrapping may work for a particular part, this does not mean that it will work for other parts. Similarly, performing 4 local wraps one after the other could produce a different result than if you performed the 4th local wrap directly.

While local wrapping is intended to speed up the overall wrapping process, this benefit can be lost if you apply local wrapping on a large proportion of the total number of surfaces in the geometry. As a guideline, if you intend to make changes to more than 20% of the geometry, you are advised to re-run the global wrap.

In this tutorial, you set up a European-style truck for local wrapping and following a typical workflow.

You first generate a relatively coarse global wrap and check the wrapped surfaces for any obvious issues. In particular, issues such as poor resolution of parts and merged part entities are items to look out for. You then mark these affected parts for further attention before addressing the issues.