CD-adapco STAR-CCM+ v9.04

CD-adapco has released STAR-CCM+ v9.04, the second release in 2014 of its simulation tool. Customers will see reductions in overall time-to-solution and dramatic gains in productivity using its workflow improvements, parallel meshing and optimisation capabilities. The addition of new physics models allows users to perform increasingly realistic CFD and CAE simulations that more closely represent the real-world conditions under which the product will operate.

Concurrent per part meshing allows users to mesh large and complex assemblies by assigning each part to a separate parallel processor. This allows users to leverage as much computing power as they have available to wrap and mesh (or remesh) the geometry.

STAR-CCM+ v9.04 and Optimate have the option to perform a CAD robustness study. This study, performed before the full analysis, allows users to quickly check the robustness of their design ensuring that computational time will be spent performing simulations on viable geometry configurations.

The new expression cost function available for adjoint problems in STAR-CCM+ allows users to mathematically combine cost functions into arbitrary formulas. Both individual and combined sensitivities can then be used to more precisely guide the improvement of the design.

A contact coupling feature has been added to DFBI to model the contact and collision between moving bodies and boundaries, while Field Function editing is made easier - syntax highlighting and parenthesis matching will provide users with immediate feedback on whether expressions are constructed correctly. In addition, the filtering feature is now capable of supporting queries and conditional expressions to group entities.