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User Interface
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides a Graphical User Interface generally known as the client workspace. This interface appears when you launch Simcenter STAR-CCM+ interactively.
Wizard Guide
This part of the documentation illustrates how Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is used for special application tools and projects.
Using the Thermal Comfort Wizard
This section explains the thermal comfort feature of Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
Setting Up a Thermal Comfort Case
This section outlines the process of setting up a passenger comfort case with the thermal comfort wizard.
Activating the Thermal Comfort Wizard
The properties are set using the Thermal Comfort Wizard.

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User Interface
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides a Graphical User Interface generally known as the client workspace. This interface appears when you launch Simcenter STAR-CCM+ interactively.
- Using the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Workspace
  This chapter shows you how to use the various components of Simcenter STAR-CCM+, with a focus on the user interface.
- What Are the Important Concepts?
  This section presents the key concepts you come across when using Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
- Working with Simulation Objects
  Objects are the key components of Simcenter STAR-CCM+. They represent various aspects of a simulation and have properties that you can set as required for your particular problem.
- Automation
  The Automation node provides easy access to a number of frequently used automated processes.
- Expressions
  In Simcenter STAR-CCM+, you can define property values using expressions, which you write using a function language that is a subset of the C programming language. Expressions can define mathematical expressions or perform other operations, such as interpolating tabular data from XY tables in the simulation.
- Global Parameters
  Global parameters include scalar and vector physical quantities (for example, 120.0 K or [0.0, 1.0, 0.0] m) that can be defined once and used in multiple objects. Another type of global parameter is a file, currently used for the Replace Parts operation in Geometry > Operations and in Design Manager.
- Field Functions
  Field functions allow you to access fields (scalar or vector data that are evaluated at cells, vertices, or boundary faces) in Simcenter STAR-CCM+. You can use field functions to visualize the computed fields, to specify boundary and region values, or to define initial conditions.
- Engineering Units
  Simcenter STAR-CCM+ has flexible and customizable support for engineering units. The standard SI and USCS systems are built in, and you can add new units as desired. Physical quantities can be specified and displayed in any of these units. Individual quantities can be specified with new units on the fly by simply typing something like “80 mph”.
- Simulation Operations
  Simulation operations allow you to automate the solution processes in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ without using Java macros. Condition and loop operations provide the basic logic control common to many programming languages.
- Staged Physics
  In Simcenter STAR-CCM+, staged physics allows you to store multiple configurations of physics settings and apply them in sequence during a simulation. Simulation operations provide the framework in which physics stages are applied.
- Working with Volume Shapes
  A volume shape is a closed geometric figure that can be shaped as a block, cone, cylinder, or sphere.
- Simulation Guide
  The simulation guide is a single embedded document that you can edit within a simulation file. This document can contain formatted text, tables, images, and hyperlinks to nodes in the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ object tree or external web resources.
- Template Simulation Files
  Template simulation files allow you to define pre-configured setups for use in new simulations. When used in conjunction with query-based selection, template files present a powerful technique for automating repeat analyses on similar geometries.
- Scripting the Application
  Scripting allows you to work more efficiently by automating repetitive tasks.
- Working with User Code
  User code allows Simcenter STAR-CCM+ to be customized with functions written in a compiled language such as C, C++ or Fortran.
- Working with the Plugins Manager
  The Plugins Manager makes it possible to install and manage NetBeans modules for Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
- Simulation Assistants
  A Simulation Assistant provides a visual workflow within the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ user interface (UI).
- Wizard Guide
  This part of the documentation illustrates how Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is used for special application tools and projects.
  - Using the Fire and Smoke Wizard
    This section describes the fire and smoke wizard feature of Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
  - Using the Thermal Comfort Wizard
    This section explains the thermal comfort feature of Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
    - What is the Thermal Comfort Model? (deprecated)
      The thermal comfort model enhances simulation of passenger comfort inside a vehicle (typically an automobile).
    - What is the Thermophysiological Occupant Model?
      The thermophysiological regulation of the human body can be seen as a regulatory circuit consisting of a passive and an active system.
    - What is the Thermal Comfort Wizard?
      The thermal comfort wizard is a tool that provides a clear and structured approach to setting up a thermal comfort simulation.
    - What are TCM Passengers?
      Thermal comfort passengers are defined in the General Settings tab of the thermal comfort wizard.
    - What are TCM Boundaries?
      Thermal comfort boundaries are defined in the External Convection and Radiation tab of the thermal comfort wizard.
    - What is the Thermal Comfort Solver?
      Thermal comfort solver settings are defined in the Advanced Settings tab of the thermal comfort wizard.
    - Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Capabilities Related to Thermal Comfort
      This section outlines the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features that are related to thermal comfort modeling.
    - Setting Up a Thermal Comfort Case
      This section outlines the process of setting up a passenger comfort case with the thermal comfort wizard.
      - Activating the Thermal Comfort Model
        The Thermal Comfort model is selected from within the Physics Model Selection dialog on the relevant continuum.
      - Activating the Thermal Comfort Wizard
        The properties are set using the Thermal Comfort Wizard.
      - Working with General Settings
        The General Settings tab allows you to specify properties for regions and boundaries.
      - Using Advanced Settings
        If you are an experienced user of TCM, you may want to adjust parameters in the Advanced Settings tab. Otherwise, leave the settings at their defaults.
      - Adding External Convection and Radiation
        In the External Convection and Radiation tab you can define the properties of any thermal boundaries in the model, as well as specify the mass flow rate and temperature at the inlets.
      - Pre Processing
        The thermal comfort wizard allows you to perform more pre-processing steps in order to get useful data from the model and prepare scenes.
      - Saving and Reloading TCM Settings
        The Save TCM Settings button takes the data currently entered in the thermal comfort wizard, and adds it to the relevant placeholders in the object tree.
    - Performing a TCM Simulation
      Once the TCM settings have been saved, the simulation can be run.
    - Post Processing a TCM Simulation
      The thermal comfort wizard has some additional post-processing capabilities that are specific to thermal comfort simulations.
    - Working with TCM Input Files
      This section describes the format of the external passenger.dat file, which is used with the thermal comfort wizard.
    - Working with TCM Output Files
      This section details the contents of the thermal comfort output file, passenger_tim_xx.txt, where xx refers to the passenger number in the simulation.
    - Bibliography
      This section lists the bibliographic references for the Thermal Comfort wizard.
  - Simcenter STAR-CCM+ E-Machines Performance Workflow
    The Simcenter STAR-CCM+ E-Machines Performance Workflow wizard allows you to import electric machine designs into Simcenter STAR-CCM+ for further analysis. For example, you can compute the 3D magnetic fluxes within the electric machine or set up a thermal analysis.
  - Using The IDF Import Wizard
    The IDF Import Wizard imports IDF (Intermediate Data Format) files into the 3D-CAD modeler in Simcenter STAR-CCM+.

Activating the Thermal Comfort Wizard

The properties are set using the Thermal Comfort Wizard.

To begin accessing this feature:

From the menu bar, select Window > Toolbars > Customize.

This opens the Customize Toolbars dialog as shown in the following screenshot.
Scroll down to the Thermal Comfort Wizard icon.
Drag and drop this icon onto the end of one of the toolbars near the top of the workspace.
Click Close on the Customize Toolbars dialog.
Click the (Thermal Comfort Wizard) button.

This opens the Thermal Comfort Wizard dialog.

The thermal comfort wizard assumes that the model has been built, and boundaries defined. Initial temperature values for the passenger body segments must also be specified before using the wizard. Data is then entered into the wizard to correctly define the characteristics of the thermal comfort simulation. The data is only applied to the simulation and added to the relevant managers in the object tree when the Save TCM Settings button is clicked.

The dialog includes a Close button that closes the wizard without writing to the file. Data entered in the wizard are cleared only if the Simcenter STAR-CCM+ client is shut down.