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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.
Mesh
The tutorials in this set illustrate various STAR-CCM+ features for building CFD meshes.
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.
Checking Suitability for Directed Meshing
The directed meshing tool takes a surface mesh that is generated on a source surface and sweeps it through the volume to the target surface. The tool uses the remaining surfaces to guide the mesh. Therefore, each part that you choose to use in directed meshing must have at least three distinct surfaces. You can make sure that the parts satisfy this requirement by looking through the defined surfaces of each geometry part.

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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.
    - Prerequisites
      The instructions in the Directed Meshing 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 pre-defined simulation objects.
    - Checking Suitability for Directed Meshing
      The directed meshing tool takes a surface mesh that is generated on a source surface and sweeps it through the volume to the target surface. The tool uses the remaining surfaces to guide the mesh. Therefore, each part that you choose to use in directed meshing must have at least three distinct surfaces. You can make sure that the parts satisfy this requirement by looking through the defined surfaces of each geometry part.
    - Assigning Parts to Regions
      Since a volume mesh cannot be generated for parts that are not associated with a region, assign the parts to regions.
    - Using Patch Meshing
      You can mesh the Air, Slot, and Stator Steel parts at the same time using patch meshing. Patch meshing requires you to create patches on the source surface manually. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ uses these patches to generate a quadrilateral surface mesh. The three parts have contacts that are defined between them, allowing them to be used together in one directed mesh operation.
    - Using Existing Meshes
      Use the volume mesh that is generated from the patch topology to generate a source mesh for the remaining Magnet and Rotor parts.
    - Summary
      This tutorial demonstrated how to use the directed meshing tool in Simcenter STAR-CCM+.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Checking Suitability for Directed Meshing

The directed meshing tool takes a surface mesh that is generated on a source surface and sweeps it through the volume to the target surface. The tool uses the remaining surfaces to guide the mesh. Therefore, each part that you choose to use in directed meshing must have at least three distinct surfaces. You can make sure that the parts satisfy this requirement by looking through the defined surfaces of each geometry part.

Create a geometry scene.

View the CAD bodies and parts:

Expand the Geometry > 3D-CAD Models > 3D-CAD Model 1 > Body Groups node.
To view the parts that are shown in the geometry scene, expand the Geometry > Parts node.

Each part is associated with a CAD body. To use directed meshing, associate each part with exactly one body.

Expand all Geometry > Parts nodes.
Multi-select all [Part] > Surfaces > [source] nodes.
The selected surfaces are highlighted in the Geometry Scene.

The subdivision of part surfaces has been chosen to demonstrate the two methods available in the Directed Mesh tool for creating quadrilateral meshes on the source surfaces:
- Using manually created patches
- Using an extracted surface of an existing volume mesh
The Stator Steel.source, Slot.source, and Air.source faces are meshed using the patch meshing option. They can be meshed together since the source surfaces are connected and lie on the same plane. The patch mesh is then swept through the volume of the Stator Steel, Slot, and Air parts to produce a volume mesh for these parts.
The Magnet.source and Rotor.source faces are meshed using an existing mesh of a part surface they are in contact with. The Air.bottom surface mesh is mapped to the Magnet.source surface, allowing you to generate a volume mesh for the Magnet part. The Magnet.target surface mesh is then mapped to the Rotor.source surface. Note the Air.bottom surface has been separated out from the other Air surfaces to represent the surface that is in contact with the Magnet.source surface. This breakdown of surfaces is a requirement if you want to map an existing mesh to a source surface mesh–both parts in contact must have a separate part surface for the interface.