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.

Throughout this tutorial, links to other sections of the online documentation explore important concepts. For example, for a clearer understanding of the changes to typeface in the tutorials, refer to the typographic conventions.

Before you attempt this tutorial, make sure that you have downloaded the tutorial files bundle from the Support Center portal. See Downloading the Tutorial Files. This bundle contains starting or input files for this tutorial and others.

The case is a transonic flow over an idealized symmetrical blunt body in a wind tunnel.

The tutorial workflow includes:

• Importing the geometry files.

• Generating a polyhedral mesh.

• Setting boundary names and types.

• Defining the models in the continua and applying them to the regions.

• Defining the region conditions, values, and boundary conditions.

• Running the simulation.

• Post-processing the results.