Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows the modeling and analysis of a range of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, stress, particulate flow, electromagnetics and related phenomena.
Formerly known as STAR-CCM+, the software was first developed by CD-adapco and was acquired by Siemens Digital Industries Software as part of the purchase of CD-adapco in 2016. It is now a part of the Simcenter Portfolio of software tools.
History Development work on STAR-CCM+ was started after a decision was taken to design a new, integrated CFD tool to replace the existing product STAR-CD which had been developed during the 1980s and 1990s by Computational Dynamics Ltd, a spin-off company from an Imperial College London CFD research group. STAR-CD was widely used most notably in the automotive industry. STAR-CCM+ aimed to take advantage of more modern programming methods and to provide an expandable framework.
STAR-CCM+ was announced at the 2004 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference in Reno, Nevada. A unique feature was a generalized polyhedral cell formulation, allowing the solver to handle any mesh type imported. The first official release included the first commercially available polyhedral mesher, offering faster model convergence compared to an equivalent tetrahedral mesh. Development Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is developed according to a continual improvement process, with a new version released every four months. The program uses a client-server architecture, implemented using object-oriented programming.
Capabilities Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is primarily Computational fluid dynamics software which uses the Finite element analysis or Finite volume method to calculate the transport of physical quantities on a discretized mesh. For fluid flow the Navier–Stokes equations are solved in each of the cells. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ has multiphysics capabilities including:
Fluid flow through porous media Multiphase flow Discrete element method Volume of fluid method Non-Newtonian fluid Rheology Turbulence Viscoelasticity
Release history Version Release date 1.04 October 2004 1.06 December 2004 1.08 January 2005 2.02 November 2005 2.04 October 2006 2.06 February 2007 3.02 March 2008 3.04 July 2008 3.06 November 2008 4.02 March 2009 4.04 July 2009 4.06 November 2009 5.02 February 2010 5.04 June 2010 5.06 October 2010 6.02 March 2011 6.04 July 2011 6.06 October 2011 7.02 March 2012 7.04 June 2012 7.06 November 2012 8.02 March 2013 8.04 June 2013 8.06 October 2013 9.02 February 2014 9.04 June 2014 9.06 October 2014 10.02 February 2015 10.04 June 2015 10.06 October 2015 11.02 February 2016 11.04 June 2016 11.06 October 2016 12.02 February 2017 12.04 June 2017 12.06 October 2017 13.02 February 2018 13.04 June 2018 13.06 October 2018 2019.1 February 2019 2019.2 June 2019 2019.3 October 2019 2020.1 February 2020 2020.2 June 2020 2020.3 October 2020 2021.1 February 20212021.2June 20212021.3October 2021 2022.1 February 2022 2206 June 2022 2210 October 2022 2302 February 2023 2306 June 2023 2310 October 2023 2402 February 2024 2410 October 2024 2502 February 2025 2506 June 2025 2510 October 2025 2602 February 2026Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Recent Updates
Usage Prior to CD-adapco's acquisition by Siemens, the customer base was approximately 3,200 accounts with 52% of licence sales attributed to the automotive industry. See also Computational fluid dynamics Computer simulation Computer-aided design Computer-aided engineering List of computational fluid dynamics software
References
External links Simcenter STAR-CCM+ webpage Simcenter STAR-CCM+ on Simcenter Community Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Technical Forum