Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2406
User Guide
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.
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:
This tutorial demonstrates the workflow for setting up a resistance prediction simulation for a marine application.
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.
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.
The foundation tutorials showcase the major features of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ in a series of short tutorials.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for creating and working with parts and 3D-CAD.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various STAR-CCM+ features for building CFD meshes.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for incompressible fluid flows as well as porosity and solution recording
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for compressible fluid flows as well as harmonic balance.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for heat transfer, radiation, and thermal comfort.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for simulating multiphase fluid flow problems
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for simulating Discrete Element Method problems
This tutorial outlines the steps that are required to set up and run a rotating radial fan analysis. It uses the Moving Reference Frame model, a steady-state approach that involves two or more frames of reference that can be stationary or moving relative to each other.
This tutorial models the same radial fan problem as the Moving Reference Frames: Rotating Fan tutorial. However, instead of using the steady-state moving reference frame model, this tutorial uses the transient Rigid Body Motion model with actual mesh rotation.
This tutorial demonstrates use of the Overset Mesh feature with free surface flow and DFBI to model the motion of a lifeboat falling into water. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ automates the grid overlapping process.
In Dynamic Fluid-Body Interaction (DFBI) simulations, you can use Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) to dynamically refine the mesh around a moving 6-DOF body based on the computed flow solution.
In order to achieve accurate resistance predictions, you are recommended to use trimmed hexahedral meshes with local refinements and prism layers along the walls of the wetted surface. In order to refine the computational mesh only where it is necessary, you create volumetric controls with particular shapes. A particular cell size is then assigned to these volumetric controls.
Flow resistance simulation is a complex transient multi-physics problem.
Here, you create several plots and graphs for visualizing the results.
A resistance prediction analysis is a transient simulation for which you must specify the time-step, the number of inner iterations per time-step, and the physical time. Additionally, you can set numerical parameters such as under-relaxation factors to enhance convergence per time-step.
You are advised to run this tutorial on a multi-core machine with four cores or more. Depending on the specifications of your computer, this tutorial takes one to two days to complete.
You can follow the progress of the solution using each of the scenes that you created previously.
For the Gothenburg Workshop 2010, experimental results were provided for comparison with simulations.
This tutorial has introduced the following STAR-CCM+ features:
This tutorial demonstrates the workflow for setting up an open water simulation for a marine propeller.
One of the challenges in marine engineering is to predict the speed with which a ship hull moves through water in response to the thrust supplied by a spinning propeller. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides a methodology by which you can predict this speed.
The rotating main rotor blades of a helicopter generate a complex flow field that leads to periodic aerodynamic loads on the airframe. Because of these aerodynamic loads, the passenger cabin can be subject to noise and vibration. These aerodynamic interactions affect the performance of helicopters and they can cause structural damage. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ provides a method for simulating the flow generated by rotor blades that does not require you to mesh the blades individually. This method allows you to predict the complex flow field around a helicopter taking into account the fuselage and rotor flow field interaction.
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ contains a Morphing Motion Model that enables you to define motion on boundary surfaces using several methods.
Rotary lobe blowers are valveless positive-displacement units. Fluid is pumped by two counter-rotating lobes that are mounted on parallel shafts. Fluid enters through the expanding volume at the suction side of the pump. As the lobes continue to rotate, the fluid is compressed between the lobes and the pump casing and hence transported towards the discharge.
Paint dipping is a process by which a component is coated with paint in a dipping tank. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows you to simulate this process and therefore study the effects of different trajectories and component speeds.
A Gerotor pump is a unit with an inner and an outer rotor that have different rotational speeds related to their tooth numbers. The dynamically changing volume between the rotors transports the liquid from inlet to outlet.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for simulating reacting flows such as combustion.
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.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for solving aeroacoustic simulations.
The following tutorials illustrate features for solving problems that involve electromagnetic fields.
The following tutorial demonstrates chemical reactions induced by an electrical current.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for setting up a battery model:
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ automation and macro features.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various features for running design exploration studies in Design Manager.
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for coupling with CAE codes:
The tutorials in this set illustrate various Simcenter STAR-CCM+ features for analysing and visualizing simulation data.
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.
