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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.
Analysis Methods
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for analysing and visualizing simulation data.
Data Focus: Thermal Comfort
Data focus delivers a way to expose critical engineering results and improve decision making. It lets you select areas of interest within one or more plots and immediately visualize the data in those areas within connected scenes.

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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.
- 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.
  - Volume Rendering: Steckler Room
    This tutorial demonstrates the advanced post-processing capabilities of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ using the simulation file that was created in the tutorial, Fire and Smoke Wizard: Steckler Room. If your graphics card does not support volume rendering, activate advanced rendering for the relevant scene.
  - Data Focus: Thermal Comfort
    Data focus delivers a way to expose critical engineering results and improve decision making. It lets you select areas of interest within one or more plots and immediately visualize the data in those areas within connected scenes.
    - Prerequisites
      The instructions in the Data Focus tutorial assume that you are already familiar with certain techniques in Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
    - Preparing the Simulation
      For this tutorial, you use an existing simulation file that contains some of the required objects already prepared.
    - Examining the Mesh
      For meshing, data focus tools give you a way to browse across the surface of a mesh and examine an appropriate metric. In this instance, you view the area of cell faces.
    - Exploring the Correlation of Velocity Magnitude and Temperature
      Use a data focus to explore the relationship between velocity magnitude and temperature. A combination of high velocity and low temperature could be uncomfortable for the driver.
    - Exploring Results in 3D
      Explore similar data, but in a much larger quantity, and discover how to find the essential results using data focus.
    - Summary
      This tutorial demonstrated data focus and other advanced post-processing features in Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
  - Simulation History: Lagrangian DEM on an Auger
    This tutorial demonstrates Simcenter STAR-CCM+ simulation histories with Lagrangian DEM, using an auger that moves biomass pellets of different sizes.
  - Field Histories: Pressure Time Derivative
    A field history is a type of field monitor that stores a finite number of past values (or samples) of a field function, captured at moments defined by its update policy, for a given set of input regions or boundaries (or both).
  - Screenplay Animation: Assessing Vehicle Aerodynamics
    Screenplay is a post-processing tool in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ that provides keyframe animation techniques for creating analysis videos. Using the Screenplay editor, you define animation effects and movement, and then generate a final rendered video for sharing with project stakeholders.
  - Advanced Rendering: Ray Tracing
    Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides advanced rendering capabilities that you can use to create scenes that resemble real-life images.
- 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.

Data Focus: Thermal Comfort

Data focus delivers a way to expose critical engineering results and improve decision making. It lets you select areas of interest within one or more plots and immediately visualize the data in those areas within connected scenes.

With this live and interactive link between numerical and visual data, you can examine unexpected or non-intuitive results, for example:

Locate unburned fuel in areas where local temperatures are high.
Find zones where residence time is high in areas where flow speed is also high.
Determine where bubbles can promote better mixing through enhanced local turbulence.

In this tutorial, you explore relationships between temperature and velocity fields for a thermal comfort scenario. The tutorial begins by reviewing face sizes on the surface of the passenger. In an industrial case, this study could lead to further refinement of particular areas on a mesh.

There are multiple methods for applying data focus in a simulation; this tutorial presents two alternatives. One is to edit a data focus object directly; the other is to edit relevant properties within scenes and plots.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of data focus comes when you link resampled volume data with scatter plots that cover entire regions. You can survey large data sets interactively without creating any additional derived parts. In this tutorial, although the data set is much smaller than an industrial simulation, the workflow is the same.