CD-Adapco Star-CD 4.

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STAR-CD comes fully integrated with pro-STAR, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) driven pre/post-processing environment that delivers the most advanced set of tools ever developed for CFD, to set up, automatically mesh, run the analysis and post-process the results. The GUI environment is highly process-oriented, very intuitive and easy to learn and use. Its high-level interactive system guides you through the model building process of: .Creating / importing, checking and fixing the grid .Specifying boundary locations .Selecting thermophysical models, properties and boundary conditions .Setting up solution controls .Monitoring and steering the calculations At the end of the analysis, the GUI system helps again with extensive post-processing capabilities. These include animation, particle tracking, data graphs and a wide range of raster and vector style plots. Pre/post-processing features include: .More flexible tabular input for transient runs .Enhanced GL based visualization .New lightweight 3-D interactive viewer CAD Readers CD-adapco is committed to ensure that STAR-CD fits smoothly within your overall CAD environment and CAE workflow. Accordingly STAR-CD can read geometry from generic standard formats and all major CAD systems. The following generic standard translators are available: .GES .STL (Stereolithography) .STEP AP203 ISO standard .Parasolid

.VDA-FS Readers for the following native CAD readers are also available, which enable native format CAD models to be imported offline without incurring the cost and inconvenience of requiring a CAD installation on your desk: .CATIA V4 .CATIA V5 .Unigraphics NX .Pro/ENGINEER Surface Cleaning and Meshing Importing CAD models is not the end of the story. CAD data often includes geometry definitions that are quite adequate for CAD systems, but require fixing and/or defeaturing before meshing. Surface preparation is therefore included in the STAR-CD package via modules which allow defeaturing of unnecessary geometric details and automatically close small surface gaps and joining surfaces. This eventually creates a closed envelope as required by surface and volume meshing. Surface Wrapping This unique meshing feature available in STAR-CD was initially developed to enable complex and large CAD models to be quickly and automatically shrink-wrapped] through a fully automatic process to close holes, join surfaces and remove interior and overlapping surfaces. This situation typically applies to external aerodynamics, underhood, passenger compartments, or more generally to thermal management applications (e.g. airplanes engine nacelle, etc.) where the CAD models are large and may be produced by different CAD systems. The main challenge is overall meshing time. Our wrapping solution for the surface touched by the fluid, produces a completely closed surface mesh of triangles and/or quadrangles ready for volume meshing.

STAR-CD provides one of the most effective numerical methodologies available in an industrial CFD code with the high level of accuracy needed for complex unstructured meshes.This is delivered with the speed, efficiency and robustness demanded by engineering design and development cycles. STAR-CD uses state-of-the-art, proprietary numerical schemes to achieve the highest levels of accuracy in both steady and transient simulations, making STAR-CD one of the least sensitive codes to mesh type and quality, including distorted tetrahedral meshes. Remarkably, this has been achieved without sacrificing efficiency or robustness. So, whatever the choice of mesh or engineering application, STAR-CD will provide the best solution in the shortest time. Alternative solvers are available within the pro-STAR environment, including a parallelized algebraic multigrid option, a version optimized for high-speed compressible flows, and STAR-CDs continuum mechanics solver, "Comet" which offers unique free-surface, multiphase and multiphysics capabilities. STAR-CDs flexibility in accepting almost any mesh structure and/or cell shape makes it ideal for adaptive meshing. GUI-based tools provide an automated environment to adapt your mesh, based not only on solution variables but, uniquely, on actual numerical errors. This allows optimization of models, with refinement of cells in areas where they are most needed. http://www.cd-adapco.com/products/star_overview.htm