CD-adapco STAR-CCM+ v11.02

CD-adapco has announced STAR-CCM+ v11.02, providing updated modelling capabilities as well as productivity and usability enhancements.

The product introduces Data Focus, a visualisation technique to explore and interrogate results interactively. Data Focus provides an interactive link between quantitative numerical data in plots and qualitative visual data in scenes. This link allows the user to easily and effectively gain insight into the key influences on product performance.

STAR-CCM+ v11.02 includes 40 added features drawn from ideas submitted through IdeaStorm, the forum exclusive to CD-adapco users. These features elevate confidence with results, streamline simulation workflows and increase productivity.

Local Surface Remeshing allows for remeshing only selected areas when changing mesh parameters or performing design changes, reducing surface mesh generation time up to an order of magnitude. Native Cylindrical Primitive Particle Types in DEM reduces turnaround time and improves accuracy by representing particles, such as tablets or pellets, using true cylinders as opposed to a collection of spheres.

Co-extrusion in Computational Rheology expands the application scope of STAR-CCM+ to include complex extrusion processes involving multiple material streams, while Hinged Multi-Body Motion allows for modelling of complex dynamic fluid body interaction scenarios where multiple parts are coupled together with common mechanical joints.

The company is also introducing a VPD tool for mixing problems called Admixtus. By using Admixtus together with STAR-CCM+, engineers in the chemical and processing industries will experience significant productivity gains through workflow automation and have the freedom to explore many designs early in the product development cycle.